November 09, 2004
Bestyakh
Red-Light Roma! Guide/translator/teammate Roma Golovin got to take the wheel out by the ferry in Bestyakh. He's a pretty good driver! (Of course, he has driven on ice and snow all his life, right?)
Photo by Nancy Olson
| Logbook for Nov. 9th, Day 375 | ||
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Finish: Aldan, Russia Time: 8:10 a.m N: 58* 36.467 E: 125* 23.261 |
Finish: Bestyakh, Russia Time: 12:55 a.m N: 61* 59.855 E: 129* 59.193 | Mileage: 363 |
| Notes: Had breakfast with the mayor and bid our new friends a fond farewell. He escorted us to the edge of the district, and we were on our way. The roads were all snow-covered and icy. As it got darker, we watched the temperature drop to below -30 C. D4 was in the lead, with Nancy and Roma navigating, and suddenly they came upon a dark shape in the road. They just barely missed running over what turned out to be a Yakutian man in the fetal position, just left of the center of the road. Once the others had caught up, the man was checked for damage and determined to be inebriated. It was well below freezing, and the man had one shoe, no gloves, and no way home. A passing van refused to take him, so the team put him in the back of D4 and brought him to the next police stop in town. They checked him in, and Nancy stuffed a couple of Hella lights in his pocket. Eventually, he'll find them and wonder how in the heck they got there. The team ended up driving to the ferry terminal, where it was determined that the vehicles should be left on this side of the river, and the team would go without them to Yakutsk, on the other side of the river. We pulled a man out of a ditch, and he hooked us up with a great place to stay in a town that supposedly has no hotels. That's karma, baby! We slept well in our warm resort in the woods. (N.O.) | ||
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