Another day driving towards Aqtobe

We spent another day driving in the dessert fields, making only a couple hundred km through the day. The land is flat and baren; the most interesting thing out here is the complete lack of anything interesting. The ambulance gets stuck in the only mud puddle we have seen for days, the Suzuki and Peugeot team up and pull it out. Also, we find another Mongol Rally ambulance abandoned on the side of the road. It is no doubt that this piece of road will claim a lot of vehicles. We are getting a bit concerned about the amount of time it is taking to get through Kazakhstan as we still have such a long ways to go. Confidence remains high and the cars are still doing well. A few heat shields have been beaten off and both Peugeots’s oil pans are quite rough - also one of the Peugeots differential is leaking a bit of oil through the CV seal and the other Peugeot’s CV is on its way out. We are hoping to replace it in Almati, but in the mean time it continues to push them down the road. Everyone, including the Pale Horse, has bent wheels.