a trip to the moon

I left quickly Turkmenistan with some un-honoured dinner and
overnighting invitations … but I have a schedule to keep and i’m
keeping it.

(Uralrider)

(the Silk Road)

We stayed in Baku for 2 night, seen the places where the competition
for the American oil started to come to Europe, the “excavation for
oil” places and well, where “it all started” for a second start :).

We were so very much on time, it was the 17th of June and my visa for
Turkmenistan was starting on the 18th of June. We set apart, Cri had a
plane back to Bucharest in the same evening and me (how lucky, a boat
to Turkmenbashi, across the Caspian in the same day). It was swift and
somehow unpainfull. There was a sea parting us now and it was the
right time. We sailed in the evening and touched Turkmenistan ground
the next day in the afternoon. The customs processings took 6 hours
and I swear nobody was lazy there. It was just how it had to be. Very
friendly and helpful people. Ther’s a curefew in Turkmenistan: you
can’t drive outside cities after 22 (by some) or 23 (by others)
o’clock…. so I had to pitch my tent (along with a Dragoman
international team that came overlanding with an old Mercedes truck)
in the parking lot of the Customs. The next days were hot, very hot, I
could realy feel I was in Asia now, the camels appeared and the dunes,
and I’m on the Silk Road now and Gnu started spitting from time to
time (well, it was hot so that’s ok).