Tues.19th June.
Update from Nadine - taken from the Gobi Gals Facebook page...Wow. What
a day. Only 5 punctures... All on Belle's bike somehow too. It didn't help that
the glue for the patches wouldn't set because it was so hot, so we'd get a km
down the road and it would fall off! The last one was a bad one. In an
intersection, Belle's rear tyre blew suddenly, and she nearly came off.
Unfortunately we had to move 100m up the road, and the tube was royally
stuffed. Luckily a very nice man by the name of Nikolai helped and drove back
and forth to a repair place, and informed us that our 2 spare tubes are
stuffed. So fingers crossed we make it into the next city to buy some new ones!
We need only to go 40 kms, but we had 3 puntures in that distance this
morning!! So it is now 2 in the morning, and we have just come into the hotel
room, showered and eaten. A long day, that started so well!! Now in the morning
I have to fix my gear level which is slipping and rotating and therefore not
doing it's job. Will we ever get a break!? That is what we are wondering...
Heading north tomorrow, hopefully, and heading to Omsk where we hope to get a
train to Irkutsk. Fingers crossed everybody!!!
