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Old 15th Jul 2017, 01:40
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SASless
 
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Lost.....errrrr.....no.

When you land ten minutes into a twenty minute low fuel light and get directions from a legless guy on a homemade skate board thanking the Lord for hand signs and finger pointing cause neither one of you speak French....then leap off into the dust-haze following a dirt track and realizing all that pointing at the Watch face trying to determine how far the next fuel might be.....and realizing that two marks could be meaning two hours but you did not determine if that was by skate board or by car.

So....lost....nope....just slightly disoriented momentarily!



I had no idea which country I was in....much less where in that country I might even be.

Using a 1957 Map in 1974 in West Africa with only a Mag Compass and a Watch in really dusty vis could provide some comic relief.....after the first dozen beers.

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