Day 19 - another long day ... 734 kms to Shymkent

It's past midnight in KZ without any word from Car 72.    However, I notice from the official classifications that Clive and Ces have registered at the finish control, so clearly all is as well as can be expected.  

I do not hold out much hope of frequent updates, except tomorrow when they have only 200 kms to cover.  And since they will be sitting at the Kazakhstan-Uzbekhistan border for hours and hours, Clive will have plenty time to craft a creative SMS update.

And then they have a night each in Tashkent and in Samarkand ... such legendary places are definitely worthy of a photograph and a despatch ... unless of course, 100% of the energy in Car 72 is required to ensure that the 1938 Chevy gets through to Paris.

Finally, I leave you with an image of the countries through which the P2P will be passing in coming days.  It's challenging enough to be doing Kazakhstan - Uzbekhistan - Turkmenistan - Iran - Turkey.   But if they stray a little, especially to the south, they would have Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria to add to those other well known tourist destinations.

The path of the P2P over coming days ... not a relaxing part of the world, is it?