It was back in summer 2006 when Fruit first started talking about doing the Tuareg rally. I wasn't against the idea, but was rather more cautious and wanted to 'try things out' first. So, it was agreed that we would do a trip to Morocco over Xmas and New Year. Plan A was to join a group, plan B was to go it alone. Plan B won out.
At this point we had never driven a 4x4, let alone owned one, so the first job was to go shopping. We plumped for a Land Rover Defender 90 - one, because it looked the part and two, because there was one for sale just up the road. Enter the Rat stage left.
A short wheel base probably wasn't the brightest choice as we planned to turn it into a camper and Fruit is 6 foot 3, fortunately I am only 5 foot 4. So with the seats folded forward, the creation of a cunning sleeping platform, Fruit sleeping diagonally and me filling in the gap at the side it kinda worked.
We bought the Rat in October and after a few off-road lessons courtesy of Jim at Explore Off-Road (http://www.exploreoffroad.co.uk/) and some camper van conversion work we set off to Morocco via Spain.
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