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So, I came back on Sunday and been working and doing everyday stuff since. Started going through the photographs yesterday and it feels pretty weird looking back at what we were doing last week. Feels like it was years ago. During the trip we talked about how every day felt so long. How laying in the tent in the evening, thinking about the day that passed, stuff that happened that same morning seemed distant. I have that same feeling looking back now.
Day 1 started at our hotel in Bishkek. We load up the bikes. Get water and bread at a nearby supermarket. Only a couple of km in we turn south and are greeted by high mountains in the distance. Soon we are on gravel roads going through fields. It seems almost flat but we are already climbing. We pass the village of Kegeti after 55km and finally go up the valley heading for the pass. We stop at a small shop and experience our first drunk. He's sitting outside the shop, spills his plastic glass full of vodka on the ground and start moaning about in Russian. We buy some coke from his kids (?) and get going. We set camp after about 70km.
Surly Straggler and my Genesis Vagabond. In the middle Johns Scott "Speed utility bike". The Scott is pretty much a hybrid/city bike with some Ikea and Biltema bits strapped to it :). More on that to follow...
Bishkek suburbia.
Just passed Kegeti.
Camp 1.