The last two weeks were ruled by paperwork: Visa forms, passport photos, car insurance, personal insurance, CB radio and sat phone permits, car tax, donation agreements, and probably a few more which I forgot already.I hope everything is complete now. We are supposed to receive our visas, permits, and the starting number in a few weeks.
On the equipment side, there are the follwing new items piling up in the trunk of Baby Beast:

• second spare tire (still without a rim, Baby Beast’s strange rim size is hard to find on ebay)
• two aluminum sandplates
• a 12V to 230V converter
• a tent (we left our tent in Mali last time, I found a cheap new one for 30 Euros, I hope it will be OK for two weeks)
• a shovel my father donated

We booked our flights from Bissau back to Europe for the  13th of February. If we succeed to get there in time (the planned finish is on Feb 9), we will have 3 days to finish our charity activities and to do some sightseeing.

The extra headlights are almost ready (the cabling is still not final as you can imagine from the picture) and they are damn bright! I had to install a separate cable from the battery and an extra 30 amps relay to make them work, they need a lot of power.