{"id":2100,"date":"2006-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/2006\/05\/01\/j135-5-1-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-05-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T22:00:00","slug":"j135-5-1-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-eurasia-en\/2006\/05\/01\/j135-5-1-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"J135 – 5\/1\/2006"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vue de l’hotel de Kashgar – cr\u00e9dit photo Thomas Br\u00e9gardis<\/span><\/div>\n

LAURE conduit les nouveaux suiveurs , direction Serge et le Paris-Tokyo – cr\u00e9dit photo Thomas Br\u00e9gardis<\/span><\/div>\n

Serge \u00e0 midi – cr\u00e9dit photo Thomas Br\u00e9gardis<\/span><\/div>\n

Serge \u00e0 15h – cr\u00e9dit photo Thomas Br\u00e9gardis<\/span><\/div>\n

Serge \u00e0 16h – cr\u00e9dit photo Thomas Br\u00e9gardis<\/span><\/div>\n

Serge au p\u00e9age…. gratuit – cr\u00e9dit photo Thomas Br\u00e9gardis<\/span><\/div>\n

Jean-Marc, renseigne Ludo et Daniel sur le fonctionnement du GPS – cr\u00e9dit photo Thomas Br\u00e9gardis<\/span><\/div>\n

Serge et Laure recoivent des nouvelles de leurs amis par le facteur nomm\u00e9 Daniel – cr\u00e9dit photo Thomas Br\u00e9gardis<\/span><\/div>\n

L’ancienne equipe de suiveurs et la nouvelle, vous saluent bien – cr\u00e9dit photo Thomas Br\u00e9gardis<\/span><\/div>\n

Dernier "ravito" pour Jean-Marc et Benjamin – cr\u00e9dit photo Thomas Br\u00e9gardis<\/span><\/div>\n

et un ensablage pour finir…. merci pour ton aide Benjamin – cr\u00e9dit photo Thomas Br\u00e9gardis<\/span><\/div>\n

Le soir au campement laure et Serge lisent un livre d’or apport\u00e9 par Daniel – cr\u00e9dit photo Thomas Br\u00e9gardis<\/span><\/div>\n

L’oeil du tigre… – cr\u00e9dit photo Thomas Br\u00e9gardis<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

D135 – 75.2Km<\/h4>\n

MONDAY, MAY 1, 2006
N39 45.934 E76 16.691 (1251m) – N39 49.592 E77 06.244 (1181m)
75.2 km – 10H05′<\/h5>\n
To sum it up: arrival, departure, sand storm, wasps, emotions, surprises, some lily of the valley.<\/p>\n

38\u00b0 Celsius and 17% humidity<\/p>\n

It was a full day for everyone<\/p>\n

This morning Serge left with Jean-Marc and Ben at 7H45 to reach the departure point 40 minutes later.
The new team got a slow start, due to jet lag, and left at 11H00 to join Serge, whom they met 1 hour later at the 27th kilometer.  It was hot, very hot and the sun stung the white skins of the newly arrived.  It didn’t keep Ludo from baring his chest, in spite of Liu’s good advice not to.  R\u00e9my picked up the newly filled gas bottle, which is always a feat and we received a small refrigerator for the 4-wheel drive, which our very efficient agency had ordered for us — thank you, Li.<\/p>\n

Jean-Marc and Benjamin went over the organization of the 4-wheel drive and the feedings for the experienced replacements, since Daniel was present from Mon\u00e9teau to Munich and Ludo has participated in all the crossings since Australia.  The briefing was quick.  Thomas, the photographer, has come mostly to experience the adventure and he will treat us to photos until Lanzhou.  Fran\u00e7ois will replace Mathieu behind the video camera.  This new team had little time to adapt: big wasps that had been pestering us all day stung three people: Laure, Fran\u00e7ois and Liu.  Then in the midst of the afternoon a violent wind came up and raised so much dust that visibility was difficult.  It was in that hostile environment that Laure stalled the camper in the sand.  SOS camping-car arrived to tow us.  Finally we decided to go back where we came from and take refuge in a bronze foundry.  There we were protected from the sand but not from the wind.  It was better than nothing.<\/p>\n

We organized our camp, surrounded by a swarm of workers from the foundry, who were intrigued by the strange crew.  Jean-Marc and Benjamin must leave us after dinner to return to Kashgar and fly out tomorrow to Urumqi, then Beijing.  It will be a long trip for them too, since they will only reach their home in Vichy on Wednesday evening, after having spent the night of their layover in Beijing.<\/p>\n

It was a day of surprises for Serge and me, for whom Daniel and Ludo were messangers.  Thanks to my parents for the mail, to our dear neighbors Jean-Yves, Brigitte (and their daughter Marie), who have adopted our cat while we are away, for the beautiful photos and the sprig of lily of the valley, which we will keep with us all the way to Tokyo.  Thanks go to Michel for having got together a guest book signed by a lot of people from Upper Normandy, especially my colleagues from the office of Gruchet-le-Valasse (the photos are great), thanks to S\u00e9verine and Lionel for the candies, the massage oil and the perfume (it hides the bad smells).  Such a concentration of attention and so many emotions are really too much!
It\u2019s 20H30, Jean-Marc and Ben are leaving so there are some tears.  There have been too many emotions for one day, we\u2019re going to bed.<\/p>\n

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English translation by Lee Hecht<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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THE INCREDIBLE SERGE GIRARD’S CHALLENGE<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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