Day 23

An overnight fix to the Land Rover's headlight switch seems to have resolved the "no headlight" problem.

Made the Russia/Kazachstan border by 2:30pm. Russia side went OK but Kazachstan was a bit of hassle as the customs guys seemed insistant that we used the local "form fillers" to complete the declaration form at our expense. After quite a bit of ranting on our part, the initual £8 came down to £4 and we were into Kazachstan.

At the border, we noticed that the Land Rover's trailer (aka Titch) was siting a bit lower than normal. Turned that the trailer hitch was slowly tearing the Land Rover rear cross member apart. Not good news.

At the first sizeable town in Kazachstan we searched out a welder, who spent around 4 hours cutting and welding repair sections to fix the problem. (using a stick welder not only to weld, but also to cut steel) The job was finally completed at 2am.