Today the team hit a major obstacle. Between the time when David and Ken checked the visa requirements for Mauritania  and their arrival at the border post the rules were changed. Instead of being able to obtain  the visas at the border post they must now get them in Rabat, Morocco  - about 1,000 miles away. The Mauritanian border post is not a comfortable place to spend a night sleeping in the vehicles but David said:"We are not going to drive through a minefield in the dark."

The no man's land between the Mauritanian border post and the Moroccan one is an old minefield and those driving through it must keep to the well-used routes. They did have sufficient bread with them  so Janet was able to make sandwiches using tinned sardines and cheese. Tomorrow they will return to Dakhla,  to the good hotel where they stayed on Thursday night. Then they must decide what to do. One possibility is that David and Ken drive to Rabat to get those visas.