A Desert Adventure

On Monday March 7th we depart on another adventure to a remote region of our world. Early Monday we leave snowy Syracuse for the Big Apple and a flight out of JFK to Dakar, Senegal.  The plan goes thusly:  A boat from Dakar to Ziguinchor in Southern Senegal.  A car to Tambacounda heading east.  Another car to Bamako, Mali.  Some form of transportation to Gao, and then on to Niger.  More mystery transport to Niamey, Niger, and onward from there to Agadez.  Here's where it gets interesting.  Three out of four people in our group have no visas for Algeria.  If we can obtain visas, then north through Algeria toward Algiers.  If not, well...that remains to be seen.  So, we hope for the best.  One thing we do know...our flight home leaves out of Algiers.  So, one way or another we need to end up there.