2010 Peking to Paris Rally

Peking to Paris car rally in a Model A

Day 24 Sunday 3rd Oct – Turkmenabat to Ashgabad (Turkmenistan) 631km

Posted by Mission Control On October - 4 - 2010Comments Off

No official word from Fritz or Lang, but I assume they escaped the sanatorium without incident this morning for an early start to Ashgabad.  Today’s official report mentions interesting architecture of Ashgabad including a building shaped like a book (right up our alley!).  This building was built in 2006 to house the country’s press core.  I suspect the building’s tenents may have changed over the years (the rally reports refer to it as the National Library).  Just from... (more...)