We liked up to a great spot on the dune and stayed there the entire day and got baked , the sun here is like crazy hot and just fries you, the sunscreen was left in the car for good measure.
People stop us all the time and need a photo of us with the flags, it is unreal. Then a guy approached us near the Bivouac and said he saw the American flag and just had to come and say hi. Turns out it is Poucher and he races a motorcycle and it's his first Dakar and did well today. He is in the same team as the guy we helped last year when he had a bad crash and was unconscious in the middle of nowhere and it took 25 minutes for the doctors to arrive by chopper. He was in a come for days and can't recall the race at all, according to Poucher.
Then on way around the Bivouac I met Gerry who raced last year and always stopped to chat to me, now he is a media guy for Sabertooth Racing just for this race.
We were dehydrated and after coming off the dune I chugged a litre of iced water and then got incredible gut ache for some reason. Was a good first day overall, nobody got injured, we got fried and the Peruvians welcomed us with open arms.
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