After Kuerle it was another long hot drive up the highway to Turpan. I am now sitting in the front seat next to L, it's a bit squashy sharing her seat and I often have a seatbelt across my face. My prime possy in the back has disappeared, its been taken over by bike tyres, 3, and assorted extra baggage, so if I don’t want to be a very squashed toy then I had best just put up with it. Like previous days there were a great many trucks on the road so we are a...

Episode 14 In Naryn we meet up with most of the bikers. I was introduced to Iain whom I hadn't met, he seemed quite interested to meet me, but then I am a very interesting stuffed toy to meet so that is only to be expected. Umm um, I’m not sure I can go on. I got to give Lorraine a peak on the cheek when she let me sit on her bike, oh dear, I get palpitations just thinking about it. Think I will just daydream about her for a bit and carry on later. Much ...

Episode 13 We finally left Almaty one Saturday morning. We had Lorrain with us, she is one of the motorbike people, however, her motorbike died in Irkutsk in Russia and she had managed to get hold of a second-hand one in Bishkek, so she came with us to that city. I liked Lorraine, I could get used to her, like Violet she is very easy on the eye; though I did lose my good possy because of all her gear. I mean to say the car was jam packed; I had motorbike tyres...

Episode 12 After collecting their passports complete with Mongolian visa from the embassy we at last headed out of Almaty. D has noticed a very curious thing about the traffic system in the city. There are a number of quite good 4 lane roads that circle the city, not really a ring road system but along those lines. The odd thing is that at most of the big new overpasses, many still under construction you can't seem to make a left hand turn; that’s equivale...