Fjällbonäs-FarAwayistan: 070612 The heat is on! Today we drove between Ashkhabad and Turkmenabat. The distance was about 630kms straight through a desert. Both Lukas and Cam worried that they’d get bored riding in a straight line the whole day, but they would have their fun later in the day. After about 200kms we met both service cars coming towards us. They had asked a policeman for directions and he had said we were going the wrong way. Sofar, everbody agreed, but then the opinions varied. I was first of the bikes and found a road that I maintain was the biggest main road in Turkmenistan. Maybe it even was the original Silk Road! Cam and Lukas were not as certain that we were on some sort of main road. Here are some photos from the discovery. Note that Turkmenistan’s road authorities ought to get some chain saws in and clear it, now that I have finally found it ? Traffic intensity was definitely reduced after this section. Lunch was taken in a café behind a service station and above the curtains was a swallow’s nest. I wonder what the health authorities in Sweden would have to say about that? The day was the hottest till now and Lukas, who had been to the British Club in Ashkhbad the night before and had one or several beers too many – or too late at night – suffered the first hours of the day. One original Swede catalogued, like Linneaus, all deseases he could think of. After a life full of experiences from how the human being works, he found that were really only three categories. He did not know any Latin, so here they are in English. 1. Hangover 2. Envy 3. Illness you can die of. According to unsubstantiated information, Lukas suffered from category 1.  << Previous All chronicles Next >> High Performance Riding www.pgdakar.com Per-Gunnar Lundmark Fjällbonäs 15 933 91 Arvidsjaur Per-Gunnar Lundmark Eva.PG.Lundmark@swipnet.se Updated 2007-06-12