Day 21 Chelkar-Qamystybas 588/6.643 km - Reisverslag uit Qamystybas, Kazachstan van Rudy Welling - WaarBenJij.nu Day 21 Chelkar-Qamystybas 588/6.643 km - Reisverslag uit Qamystybas, Kazachstan van Rudy Welling - WaarBenJij.nu

Day 21 Chelkar-Qamystybas 588/6.643 km

Blijf op de hoogte en volg Rudy

11 Mei 2014 | Kazachstan, Qamystybas

The day started good. A nice sleep and a cool morning. We left early ready to hit the gravel road. After 10 km the track went over a sand dune. Jamaliah said no and I gave gas to try to make it. We got stuck. Shovelling did not help. Fortunately the security police, who visited us last night, came by and pulled us loos only to get stuck again when we attempted an alternative route. Apparently there were 3 such sand ridges to cross. That would be too much so we turned around and had to repeat the long 138 km bumpy road again and then over the highway to Aralsk. We were in time to go to immigration and get ourselves registered. We visited the dried up harbour and the small fishing museum. Also managed to get Diesel (90L including jerry can), water (+30L also almost empty) money and food. Ready to go back into the steppe. The others had driven some 90 km on so we had to hurry to catch up with them before sunset. The time had again changed 1 hr. forward. In this way we can never get up early. In this trip we had to change the clock 4 times so far.

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Rudy

We are a family of 4. Rudy Welling was a Principal Production Technologist with Shell/NAM's offshore team. He first went on sabbatical from April 2014 to April 2016. In that period he made a return trip to Vladivostok with his wife, Jamaliah, in camper Passepartout. This was followed by trips to New Zealand and Spain. In April 2016 Rudy re-joined NAM/Shell again in Assen for a year and then retired in May 2017 after 37 years with Shell. He and his family have spent some 21 years in various Shell locations around the world (NL, UK, Brunei, NL, USA, Nigeria, Oman, NL). Jamaliah Jaja is the Manager of the house and comes from Brunei. Anton (1993) studies Business IT in Groningen Bernard (1994) studies Mechatronics also in Groningen Both boys still live at home, but will have to run the household on their own when we start our trip. Our previous trip by car (Volkswagen Passat Station) was from Oman to Holland in 2007. Rudi's great plan is to travel with his wife in a camper around the world. The trips will be in steps. The first is from Amsterdam to Vladivostok. De second from Tierra Del Fuego in Argentina over the PANAM highway to Prudo Bay in Alaska. Australia and New Zealand will be separate side trips and Africa will either be done out and back from Amsterdam or just from the Cap to Amsterdam. Now as K/O of Rudi's retirement we are making this second step on a journey around the world. We hope you will enjoy our story Rudy & Jamaliah

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