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Wednesday 21st August Masie field heaven, without a hangover.
We woke up to a bright sunny day, though it does not get light until around 08:00, decided to have breakfast in a garage just up the road, we turned up just as the garage was opening, with the normal passport checks, they let us in. We went for canned noodle things, and a tube of pringles. Soon as we got out the garage we had the first police check of the day. Once again very polite and friendly, they just don’t seemed to know what to do with us, the officer wanted to know where we stayed last night, explained that we camped, he did not seem to impressed, Linney had to show him pictures of where we camped, we all thought he was going to take us back there and show him the place. Luckily he then changed tact he was more interested in Linneys photos, then asked to see mine, nothing incriminating on are phones, Keith just denied he had a phone, so the officer just said you can go.
We stayed on the same road all day, great road, with lots of space, very little traffic, but the down side was there where very little potential stops. After about 10 miles on this road the familiar shout went up Keith had a flat rear tyre, as we got the wheel off, he said to me give the tyre a bit of a check over because it was strange how it went down, well not surprisingly there was a 2” nail through the tread and side wall, managed to get it out swapped the inner tube and pressed on. As we brought enough food in the garage earlier the plan was to have lunch on the side of the road, around the 30 mile mark, then stop again at a service station at 66 miles. We had baked beans, bread and coffee on the side of the road, living the dream again. The desert was really barren, with next to nothing growing, though we did see are first Chinese camels.
We soon came to are next stop, we cruised into the brand new place, that new it was not even open! Not good for us as we were running low on water, as we were discussing are options, a tourist bus pulled, luckily, they had some spare water for us, least we got are bottles filled up. We decided to pull off the main road and go for the minor road, even if it meant more police checks, which was a good choice. We found a little shop almost immediately filled up on water, I even had an ice cold beer, because it was so dusty, before we left the owner gave us a corn on the cob, nice touch.
We then stopped for a meal in a small local restaurant, we had what the locals were having green beans and noodles, quite tasty. As we were camping again tonight, we decided to roll on for another 20 or so miles then find a place to camp. As the two roads merged we cam across the police check, all very nice gave us some water, let Linney wash his hair with the hose pipe (no photos, not the place to take them). We selected a dusty site behind a petrol station (another theme going on), also managed to get some beers and breakfast stuff from the local shop, all sorted “Nothing can go Wrong”
Well it did, we had just done the “Waltons thing good night Jon Boy” when the blue and twos sounded, headlights full beam into the tent, nothing for it Keith went out to sort it out, I just rolled over thinking they will be gone in 5 mins, no such luck, we had to move on. All this done via Goggle translate, though they did send for a translator as well. They said they would load us and are bikes into a van and take us to a hotel in Holten around 80 miles away. Well all this took over 5 hours to complete, going through every checkpoint, passport and visa checks, we were all getting very tired now, trying to make a laugh and joke about it, but it was wearing thin. Especially when we had been at a police check point for over an hour, before Linney pointed out to the head officer, he was looking at the wrong visa, the Russian one , not the Chinese one, that why he could not understand it. We finally booked into a hotel at 04:00 in the morning, after they had taken to two other hotels, we even unloaded the bikes and baggage at the first one, you can imaged how tired we all were.
By: | Dale |
Started in: | 叶城县, 新疆维吾尔自治区, CN |
Distance: | 81.4 mi |
Selected: | 81.4 mi |
Elevation: | + 1291 / - 1070 ft |
Moving Time: | 06:24:15 |
Page Views: | 410 |
Departed: | Aug 21, 2019, 8:46 am |
Starts in: | 叶城县, 新疆维吾尔自治区, CN |
Distance: | 81.4 mi |
Selected distance: | 81.4 mi |
Elevation: | + 1291 / - 1070 ft |
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Total Duration: | 10:39:39 |
Selection Duration: | 38379 |
Moving Time: | 06:24:15 |
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Stopped Time: | 04:15:24 |
Max Speed: | 19.6 mph |
Avg Speed: | 12.7 mph |
Pace: | 00:07:51 |
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