Monday, September 7, 2009

Day 55: Symkent to Camp Tremors, Kazakhstan

September 4th, 2009

Good riding day, nice weather, not too hot, no rain. About 24 degrees was the hottest it got. Camped off the road in the desert, all was great till we noticed the ground was covered in these gross looking worms. We named it Camp Tremors after the movie.



We went through a check stop and Cory and I went through fine, but Petar got pulled over. We went back, then one cop said he told Cory to pull over (which he didn't). So he pulled Cory inside and started hitting him up for money, but he didn't realize his partner outside was busy posing for pictures with Petar and I, (we had his hat on), so when his partner called Cory out to pose in the picture, he realized he likely couldn't get any money and reluctantly waved us on.

We camped that night in the desert, but this section ended up being alive with these weird worms. There were thousands of them, that we didn't notice till after we set up camp. And they ended up crawling over everything. We spend the first 15 minutes in our tents going through all our gear to insure none of them came in on anything, and the next hour trying not to imagine them chewing through the tent at night, and laying eggs in our ears.

I slept with my iPod earphones on just in case.

443 KM today





1 comment:

  1. Ok, now it REALLY looks like he has something in his mouth. A worm perhaps? I laughed at the earphones comment, but wonder did they stay in all night? Ah, I am so humoured by these little stories.

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