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15 February to 5 March 2020
Day 6
Karen to Mount Kenya Safari Club (363.17 km) 21 February 2020
Photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
Today we faced two problems both of which had a biblical background. The aftermath of the rains
(hail?) and subsequent flooding had kept the 48 hour car busy with an afternoon reroute whilst, much
later in the day, a plague of locusts descended upon the rally as it arrived in Nanyuki, a town set almost
slap bang on the equator (0° 01’ North).
The day started well, Rob Collinge and Thomas Hansen
had managed to get their Willys Jeep roadworthy and
left Hemingway’s this morning in fine style, dressed
appropriately, in period American army uniforms.
Sadly, after much deliberation and head scratching,
Charles Stuart-Menteth and Michael Timmis’s Vauxhall
retired from the rally. The broken magneto just couldn’t
be fixed. The crew are going to continue in the very same
4x4 which Rob and Thomas had just vacated.
Dieter and Hildegard Baumhäeckel’s Volvo is match fit
again and it ran out with the rest of the team today and
rolled in at full time as well.
Heavy traffic and roadworks were, unfortunately a
feature of the first part of their morning’s drive. But after
84 km there was a bit of respite at the well shaded Blue Post
Hotel, alongside the impressive Thika Falls, where Loren
Price and Fred Gallagher had set up a Passage Control. The
crews were then sent on their way to the first Regularity
of the day at Murang’a. This was a short, smooth tarmac
section which rose and fell according to the vicissitudes of
the mango covered hills and led pretty quickly to the next
Time Control at the Nokras Riverline resort 143 km into the
Rob Collinge and Thomas Hansen dress the part in the 1954 Willys Jeep
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