Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
October 25th, 2007
By Dan Murdoch
THE Plan has changed.
It is a theme of the Trek that our plan develops or mutates as constantly as the reasons for invading Iraq.
“Oh it is part of the War On Terror. No actually it is to find WMD. No sorry I meant it was to spread democracy in the Middle East. Shit, that’s not working- we did it to overthrow a tyrant.”
Well we should really head north. Oh no that won’t work, we’ll go east. Actually that cant happen. Ok we’ll ship the cars. Oh there are a few problems there. Fine, back to the original plan.
This has been happening for a month now.
Living in such shifting sands would probably make people of a more structured persuasion go slowly mental. But we Trekkers are used to it now.
In the last few days we have received new information:
First we learned it would take 40 days to ship our cars from Mongolia to Thailand. That seemed to rule out the northern route and leave us with little option but to ship from here. Then we found out shipping from here to Bangkok would also take 40 days, rather than the “two or three weeks” we were originally quoted.
Then we got an email from our Chinese travel agency saying they have managed to get our visa dates pushed back a fortnight.
The long and the short of it is that we are still heading north. But now we hope to return to the original plan and drive through China, rather than ship. We will probably be about a week late for our new visa date (which means about three weeks late for our original date), and then we will have a fortnight to blitz through China.
Today we sorted our Russian visas. Hopefully we leave tomorrow or Saturday.
But chances are the plan will have changed by then.
Ends
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