28 Sep
I hitch-hiked from London to India via Iran & Pakistan … and on that border, I got a ride in a truck – driven by a young German heading to Kathmandu – across the desert badlands of Baluchistan for 3 days to the provincial capital of Quetta, and then I traveled solo to Sukkur, Hyderbad, Multan and Lahore – where, I was robbed by the hotel staff while bed-ridden with dysentery … to later meet-up with my then-girlfriend in India (6 weeks after leaving London).
15 Sep
He’d just locked the keys inside his truck. What a plonker! And what a hopeless position: parked as it was in front of the gate – which the guard had just unlocked and now the truck totally blocked the access point between Iran and Pakistan … cornered near Afghanistan. A high fence defined the frontier, mesh and barbed-wire running out and into the barren hills and cramped against the wire were Afghani refugees living in a dusty, iron-sheet, canvas and timber squalor. 
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Hi ... Am presently in Panama ... soon, a visit to family in New Zealand ... and then a return to Asia ???
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