Caspian Sea: Days 18 and 19
Boat ride from Hell featured breezeless, trash-filled Caspian Sea, a broken-down ferry engine, bureaucratic, filching crew of boy soldiers, the “carbon monoxide room,” mosquitoes, dehydration, gracious spam dinner, and an amazing 12 hours rest on a blood-stained cot.
From the road:
On the ferry & we’ve left! On the Caspian! We spent two days on the sea and arrived in Turkmenbashy only to spend an entire day at the border.