The mystery clanking noise that we have had in the car for the last several days has been solved. The mounting for the gearbox is broken. We looked around Moyale for the needed parts to no avail. Then a local contact, Brooke, went back over the border to Kenya to see if he can purchase the part….. After three hours Brooke came back with the local expert: The best mechanic of Moyale. He said he could fix it and give us 12 months guarantee! I, Stanley, asked him how he planned to fix it and the reply was:" If you go to the doctor, do you ask him how he will perform the operation?" No need to say more. I send him away and luckily we received a call from the shop across the border who managed to find the part. Brooke went back over the border and came back with which looked like the part. We paid him gold and told him we could take care of it from now. However, it looked the same, but wasn't. We decided to install it anyway. The difference with before was that now we actually knew where the clanking noise was coming from……
At 12:30 we ordered our third portion of Shiro (mushed brown beans with raw garlic) and loved it. Spoke with Some Cypriots this morning staying at the same hotel who are on their way from Cyprus to Mombasa. It is Saturday morning now and they need to be in Mombasa by Monday! Not sure how that will go but they are 4 guys and seem to be able to drive 24hours a day. They gave us some useful tips about coming through Egypt and Sudan. At 13:30 we were ready to go and hit the road for Yabello. Tarmacked without a pot hole in sight – the two hour drive was a pleasure. The wild evening at the "only tourist class hotel in Yabello" (without running water) was spent with a bunch of motorbiking Germans. Five beers later at 23:00 it was time to call it a night.