Hello everybody! Sorry for the lack of communication or blog entries, but things are a little tougher than we expected here in Central Asia. Currently, we are in Toshkent, Uzbekistan having made it safely across the border from Osh, Kyrgyzstan without any problems… although we did have some leftover fireworks from China in the Thundra which did not go over too well with the border guards. Aside from our little run-in at the border, everything is going well here in Uzbekistan and the people here are simply amazing which has helped to restore our faith in humanity after going through somewhat of a rough patch the last few weeks.
Turkmenistan is proving both difficult and expensive to cross, so we are taking a far less traveled but theoretically easier route back into Kazakhstan by the ever-so-shrinking Aral Sea to try and catch a Russian frieghter from Aktau across the Caspian to Baku, Azerbaijan. We have a lot of blogs ready to go on the laptops which will fill everyone in on what has been going on here at TWBR. We have a few days here in Toshkent to wait out some more visas so stay tuned… this time I promise there will be some new blogs and photos coming your way soon.
