September 27th

G – Reporting

So I think because of the stressful camping location we were on the road at 6:30 by 7 we had done 2 checkpoints one police and one army strangely 100m apart?

[conversation between B and a young army man, while G was in the office:

YAM: hello

B: hello

YAM: I love you

B: no, no you don’t

YAM: goodbye]

The rest of the day was thankfully an easy drive to Dushanbe with the GPS flawlessly getting us to the Hostel which had a room for us, plus wifi and clean clean bathrooms (I’m easily pleased these days!)

So we pulled up our email and found our Uzbek Letter of Invitation had arrived, so quickly stuck it on a USB drive along with the application form and headed into town to get it printed, that done we scoped out the Uzbek embassy location and went back to the hostel, over a few beers we got to meet our fellow guests which included a couple of very affable aussie guys who along with a French guy joined us for dinner at a local chinese restaurant - a good day.

Dangerous load! - Yes there is no red flag on the end of the wood!

Checking underneath to make sure nothing is falling off.

Dushanbe's Reservoir.