Plymouth-Dakar/Banjul Old Bangers Challenge

By Lawrence Bransby

"The true yearning of every man is to mould his dreams with reality. Never let reality stifle your dreams..." painted on the wall of a camp site in The Gambia where I stayed at the completion of the trip.One evening I was relaxing at home, glancing through the local rag after a hard day's teaching of my little darlings, when I saw a photograph of two young men standing next to a battered white van with silly grins on their faces. They were about to drive this Old Banger from Paignton, Devon, across France and Spain, into Morocco, Mauritania, across a section of the Western Sahara, into Senegal and, finally, The Gambia where they would auction the car for charity.And in that instant I said to myself, "I'm going to do that!"And I did...This is a slightly expanded account of the trip taken from the diary I kept along the way. It was one of the best adventures I have ever undertaken and, I hope, it will send a message to all you armchair adventurers out there: Next time you look at pictures of young (or old) men and women planning an adventure and say wistfully to yourself: "I wish I could do that..." how about, instead, crying out while you leap off your chair, "I'm going to do that!" - and then DO it!About the Author:Lawrence Bransby is an award-winning author of several novels. He worked as a teacher of English and was Deputy Principal of Ixopo High School for ten years. He is now retired and residing in the UK after a teaching career in Devon. He is married, and has two children. In his spare time, he loves to travel abroad on his motorbike, long distance, visiting lesser known places and kayaking down rivers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521018006
• ISBN13: 9781521018002
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"