To the moon!

Day two of having dozens of grown men giving me that look... You know.. the look that says you may have lost your mind but I'm too nice to tell you.

You see there are 20+ vehicles hawking for riders to Bishkek and a dozen vehicles going elsewhere. Murghab Tajikistan is slightly past the end of the world to them. I might as well be saying that I want to go to the moon. They immediately tell me that they can take me, just like the head of NASA... if I can provide enough funding... Like $2,000. When I say $40 they tell me it can't be done. Don't I know how far Murghab is? Over very high mountains! The charades at this point are kind of funny.

One driver agreed to go which was great, till I left to go get my bag. Apparently he had enough time for his fellow drivers to explain to him How FAR that is. Over very high mountains!

He diagramed it on a page how far it is. He got more and more excitable, thinking I wasn't getting it. Meanwhile I was correcting his guestimates on kilometers. Yes, I know how far it is.

All in all trying to convince these drivers that there are regular vehicles that make this route was like telling a tribal chieftain in the deep amazon that man has indeed been to the moon, they just won't believe it.

By the time I left there were not one, but two Murghab bound vehicles parked in the lot. Crazy... Huh?

Hopefully I'll be leaving in the next couple of days when there are enough passengers. Its a bit of a slow time of year.

This is me half way up the Too Sacred mountain.