Thoughts

Ibex on the left. It's horns where enormous which you can see faintly if you zoom.

This morning was hard with an 8am start following the 3:45am finish. I was so exhausted that all my french was gone to the point that I couldn't even respond to "ca va?". I just mumbled something incoherent in English and drank coffee. One of the joys of this segment of the trip has been the French. The two other guests (Ellen and Bob) were primarily french speakers and the locals are primarily french (or Arabic), so the conversation fell into French much of the trip. It was really enjoyable focusing on the flow of the conversation and realising that actually I was getting a lot of it for the whole evening. My ability to speak it is shite, but. comprehension is actually north of terrible. Either way, this morning, that part of my brain was not functioning. It was only an hour or so into our ride back through the desert that I was again assimilating the conversation. On the way back we saw an Ibex. (Left of one of the pics) Back at the base, it was time to collect my laundry, pack and hit the road.

Last night ended up being very late, with me and the owner of the bivouac talking and listening to music in the dunes.

Orion