We left early to avoid the heat and it is a four lane higjway to Abidjan so didn't take long to get to the hotel.
The main reason to go to Abidjan was for some visas and welding, had I done my homework I could have skipped it as Togo and Benin are free for me on SA passport. Rode around for two days trying to find a welder, none of them panned out so aborted that mission. Am not feeling a 100% and the room has a odd smell which doesn't help.
We did find a good restaurant and food store nearby which was visited a few times.
DAY 252
Two riders arrived yesterday on BMW 650 heading to Cape Town. Had dinner and brekfast with them and then we all left, except Christophe stayed for a fourth night. Was a total waste of time, Abidjan doesn't have anything, but was stunned to see how clean it was, hope it stays like that and to bad the rest of the country is not like that.
After 100kms I stopped to get a souvenir license plate from a junk yard and the guy noticed a piece of metal in my ture. I bolted to the town where they took it off and it did not puncture the tube, so we put it all back and continued on in the blazing heat and humidity and still feeling under the weather.
Arrived at MT Hotel around four and it is really nice inside and the dinner was tasty and they had cold beer to cure me. Am about thirty kilometers from the Ghana Border which I will cross in the morning. Inshalla. Applied for Burkino Fuso visa so am gambling in that direction hoping I get it within the next few days.
Plan to meet Christophe in 🇧🇯 around 27th January because he doesn't want to ride alone across Nigeria so I committed somewhat to doing that, but really don't like riding riding with someone for more than two days. If they were all like Raul when we did Morocco it would be great.
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