Location: from Shetpe to a tunnel under the road, Kazakhstan.
Lots of side wind in the morning. Road not bad, fewer dump trucks. Needed to switch my pedals from the clip in ones to the regular set I had bought because having my feet cliped in on the desert road could be dangerous. We did not have the tool for that but we came across a broken down truck next to the road and the trucker had exactly the tool we needed. After five minutes we were back on the road with my new pedals. Great!
There was a nice stretch of brand new road. A turkish trucker invited us for tea, bread, olives, funny curly cheese bits and watermelon. Perfect lunch! Then came 20-30 km of dusty secondary road parallel to the old road being renewed. Lots of dump trucks passed us and often times we found ourselves completely shrouded by a cloud of dust. Mmm gritty teeth. Stopped by a few big rocks where James had camped two years ago before the road renewal was in progress.
Since we had no tent, we ended up camping in a tunnel underneath the road. The wind was howling through it but we found a big tire near by which we set up as a big wind block along with some tarps. Appearantly this tunnel is a camel passage because as it was getting dark a few camels cautiously approached the tunnel and made the most horrible grunting noises. They seemed really upset that we were blocking their way. Luckily they eventually realized that they can just cross the road instead of going underneath it.
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