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…with a new gearbox 
and 3 resident hitchhickers from the UK (hes not sure where yet, could be manchester or london - but its probably blackburn) and Holland/never never lands
its hard to uplaod photos here so please hang on
We will be in Kyrgyzstan soon a place we are told where head on collisions are a national sport, never drive at night and keep small notes for the police…we hope our new (new being a figure of speech) gearbox holds up.
We are aware our gearbox is a bodge job of two gearboxes fused together. Kyrgyzstan is known to be a 90% mountainous country.
We have Uzbek visa’s so we don’t have to worry about that but a concern we have is obtaining Iranian visa’s…Iran is known for random refusal…they ask for your fathers name in order to get a reference, when you have a reference you can apply for the visa. If you get refused for the reference there is nothing you can do… Robs dad has previously been denied a Iranian and that’s another concern…after Uzbekistan, with luck, we will enter Turkmenistan the north Korea of central Asia…a country i have been wanting to visit for awhile, the country sounds odd…i like odd countries, in the capital there is a golden statue of the now deceased dictator know as the happy dictator…this statue depending on who you ask, a Turkmen or and outsider…rotates with the sun or as the belief is in Turkmenistan…the sun rotates around the happy dictator - we shall see!
we are in bit of a rut at the moment, our car needs a new gearbox so we are waiting on our car Won Kee to be released from Rehab!
…it is with much sadness that seoul2b has learnt of a friend who has died from Cancer…
SEOUL2B has many great friends; it has friends who continue to live with Cancer, some have just had blood transfusions that has changed their DNA so they are free to commit crime without a trace.
…and Seoul2b has friends who could not be helped by the good work many people do…at this date.
SEOUL2B would like to dedicate photos, shit’s and giggle’s, lots of persitence to keep moving, the ability to get away from many different law inforcements in different countriest, the insipired idea to get the american man (if still alive) who ate a car…to eat our car when we return and post his poo to the nonce at the korean registration office who said we couldnt drive through mongolia in a korean car…the respect for the kindness people from many many many different cultures have shown us with help food and shelter along our way -
…to our dear friend/surrogate sister Kate - i can only say i hope to see you soon. And for lewis her partner who has been buried Standing up coz he sure as hell was not ready to lie down.
we wish safe journeys always where ever he might be… big gay bear hugs to them both xX
the albums for our mongolia photos are now online… check the links on the right or click here
its been an eventful time on our way into Kazkhstan…Won Kee is feeling the stress of the journey…for half a day we drove won kee by starting him in 2 gear and putting him straight into 5th as we could do much else…reverse was out of the question as we limped around hoping to get to some kind of garage…
at 8pm ish in the town next to the kazak board we found a shed and some mechanics they seemed to know what they were doin so we left them too it…later on the boss came down flashed his guy and told the mechanic’s jokingly to work faster —by 11pm we had a new clutch disc and a won kee that worked—
currently we are in the south of Kazahkstan where our clutch problem has raisen again!!! this time we drove won kee in 4th trying not to stop coz we could down from the north of kazakhstan to the south wehere we are now…waiting to see if won kee can be fixed!
This article is a little old but its a goody…written by an ace writer
http://www.theseoultimes.com/ST/index.html <—click the link to have a read of our exit from korea and fun in russia…we are at the bottom somewhere ‘Seoul 2 B so Far’
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