Re: Iran 1978

Posted by Grant Short on Dec 13, 2013; 9:19am
URL: http://sundownersadventures.385.s1.nabble.com/Iran-1978-tp5706763p5706789.html

Hi guys: L31 passed through Afghanistan in April 1979 on my way out to do TK210 on the way back.

Remember it well as managed to get to Bamian that trip. Entered Pakistan at Torkham 6 April 1979. Have been trying to write my "memoirs" as instructed by my children, and have reconstructed the timing etc of all the trips from my passports.

However the most memorable traverse of Iran was when three of us (memory blank as to the other two) were flown out to Karachi to repatriate a coach that had an accident in Pakistan. That involved a passport on my chest saving my life when it was my turn to get some zzz' says we ran, ran, ran, only stopping for diesel , and we were stopped an boarded. Woke up to the cold steel of a muzzle in one of my nostrils and a somwhat 'glazed' young Iranian hoping that I was an American - pointing to the passport and saying New Zealand satisfied him.

Never the less the Turkish border was a welcome sight.

Still trying to get time to organise myself to add photos etc to the site