Glorious Mud

On Sunday I finally got around to organising a bit of off-road training for the expats. The MSF-H policy in CI is that only the drivers drive, and seeing how other NGO's vehicles are treated by expats I'm glad that is the case. But if there were an emergency, it would be a good thing for us expats to at least know the basics, so four of us joined my head driver at 10am and we went through the basics of changing a wheel, using the various jacks, how to check the oil etc, and then drove around the hospital to try going in and out of four wheel drive, low range etc. We then set off on the road to Guinea - currently our worst road. We found some mud and played about in it for a few hours, trying different routes through it, forward and backwards and generally trying (and succeeding) to get stuck. Excellent fun - must do it more often!