{"id":1206,"date":"2024-06-06T02:54:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T02:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2024-06-06T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T13:33:58","slug":"the-long-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/2024\/06\/06\/the-long-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The long road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well we\u2019ve been at 2 camps the last day and the tale is disappointing one<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Mini rear suspension problems continued.   On day 17 on the drive to camp we covered 600km but we had our wheel nut break twice   however the sense of pride of getting to the camp under own steam was immense <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Day 18 was a day with 400km of unsealed roads we started with trepidation and hope <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5km down the road the bolt broke again and with it our realisation we can\u2019t keep fighting what is temporary repair<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I am writing in a support car as the mini travels in a truck with the Anadol ( Turkish car) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve decided to leave on the flatbed truck today and tomorrow so we get to port in Kazakhstan to ferry across the Caspian Sea and the car gets to Baku where our parts await and we can make repairs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having spent 9hours in a mini bus it is 400km I\u2019m glad we didn\u2019t drive <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m gong to try and post without pictures initially.   Photos to come <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4166-1-1024x713.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4166-1-1024x713.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4166-1-980x682.jpg 980w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4166-1-480x334.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">First. Breakdown <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4165-1-1024x726.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4165-1-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4165-1-980x695.jpg 980w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4165-1-480x340.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Second <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"796\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4162-1-796x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1216\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Camp first night <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"749\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4163-1-1024x749.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4163-1-1024x749.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4163-1-980x716.jpg 980w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4163-1-480x351.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Third time and on back of truck <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"761\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4159-1-1024x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4159-1-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4159-1-980x728.jpg 980w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4159-1-480x357.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Our mini bus for 400km<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4161-1-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1219\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"710\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4167-1-710x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1220\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Unbelievable dust everywhere. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"836\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4164-1-836x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1225\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bleak and dead Aral Sea we crossed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well we\u2019ve been at 2 camps the last day and the tale is disappointing one The Mini rear suspension problems continued. On day 17 on the drive to camp we covered 600km but we had our wheel nut break twice however the sense of pride of getting to the camp under own steam was immense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}