This morning before catching a taxi out to see our truck we called at the Kazakstan Embassy to collect our passports and those all important Kazak Visas. We noticed immediately that while we had been given the 30 days we asked for the dates were not as we had hoped; we asked for the period 13th July to 13th August but perplexingly our new visas carried the dates 17th July to 17th August. Ah well I guess that is Asia.

At the truck the afternoon was consumed by some minor adjstments to the camper mounts. Unfortunately while the adjutments were minor they were important and required that the lower mounts be removed again. But by the end of the day the work was complete and Mike's mission to Mongolia - to upgrade the mounts on the Blackwell's camper - was successfully completed.

In addition Barnsie had offered to have his team build a replacement for the storage box (out of steel not aluminum) and work on that project was well under way.

To celebrate the completion of work we had dinner with Mike in the restaurant at the top of the Blue Sky building. This is a spectacular curved building that dominates the skyline of downtown UB.