Day 25

Spent the day doing a few vehicle related things. I'd been concerned about the rear wheel bearings virtually since we left England as they have had quite a bit of play in them despite changing them soon after we bought the van.

While in Holland we bought another set of bearings which I was going to fit today. Once I had the rear hub apart, the existing bearings had no more freeplay in them than the new ones so I topped up the grease and put the hub back together. Perhaps they are designed to wobble a bit.

Early afternoon a motorbike came down our track, ridden by an Austrian guy who was taking 3 months to ride his KTM to the far end of Russia. He was looking for some tracks to ride instead of the rather dull tarmac route, but came back after an hour saying the track became very sandy and he turned back when he came across a car stuck in about a foot of sand.

Land Rover got it's first oil change of the trip and the Baja had the front torsion bars greased for the first time in a decade at least.

Fuel stations are not quite as plentiful here as Russia but we haven't yet felt the need to fill jerry cans. At 33p a litre I could afford run a V8 Land Rover out here.