**SMS update 17**

Left at 23rd August 2009 at 06:15

Recieved by SMS (Location: Semipalatinsk - Kazakhstan)

attempting to limp out of semey to rubtovsk. Changed rear shocks in hotel car park with non fiat parts. Who after all would bring a fiat here? Now have rear suspension but looking a little low so will potter along to the better roads of russia. Will improve it all when in mongolia. Need to replace spare types also. Apart from that got drunk with locals on vodka and dave and jeff wrecked the hotel room with talc wrestling. Semey on!