One of the Dakar riders is posting entries from his road diary day by day. Sample:
It was pitch dark when I left the airport, the liaison was going to take us to the Moroccan –Mauritanian border and the special would start once we were into Mauritania. The road section turned out to be a seldom-used dirt piste, and despite the military marking it out with little torches, I still managed to get lost for a while. Fortunately I managed to regain the main track before reaching the border area, the frontier had been heavily landmined during the Polisario disputes and was no place for offroading.
Secretly Ironic 