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I met Peter Bastjančič, my friend who has joined me for the Egyptian-Libyan part of this expedition, for the first time at university during the study of Spanish.

At that point we didn't care a lot for each other but later our paths have crossed several times. I knew he was in Madrid when I took off for Morocco two years ago. So I invited him (and Matic Pečnik who was also living in Madrid at that point) to come to southern Spain when I returned from Morocco. There we made true an idea I had for years.

We entered the year 2002 twice, namely we did it at Spanish-Portuguese border. Portugal is one hour behind Spain so we actually "went back" to the previous year. We spent a couple of interesting days together, among other things we were hovering on wind that was blowing from the sea with our wrists and ankles tied to a tilt, precisely on the edge of a high coastal cliff.

It was a pleasure to travel with him and I was extremely pleased when he took very seriously the idea of traveling together through Libya. Unfortunately he is the only one of the planned group of two more that finally got till here. Prior to arrival he did an enormous job. He was moving up and down Slovenia to arrange a lot of details, to get the many small things we still needed, unsuccessfully tried to get some more sponsorships (at the end we had to take it from our wallets), he was tracking my passport that was coming from Egypt, he closed visa negotiations with Libyan Peoples' Bureau and went there to get the visas, he was chasing my sponsor Uroš (UsCom s.p.) to get a new antenna for the CB station (the original one had been stolen in Dahab while I was having a dinner on the beach), and many more things… I am glad to have a friend in such a reliable person like Peter.

Peter is finishing his linguistics studies at Ljubljana University, while being a curator of the fine Salt Pans museum at his home village of Sečovlje.