super heroes

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In the morning the dude who had told me the way to the hotel showed up:

His name was Yerig.

It was snowing outside, and I didn’t really feel like walking:

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So I stayed in and took some selfies with Madina and Murka:

We were very serious about our selfie-taking:

Only Murka seemed a bit tired:

And then, when we were standing around in the kitchen, it hit me:

With her red outfit and her green scarf, Madina looked just like a super hero!

A super-hero!

Sadly though, I couldn’t stay forever. So at some point I said my good-byes and stepped out into the snow:

The road was tough that day:

Though not quite as tough as I had expected it to be:

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I reached a hotel in the afternoon:

But it was closed.

So I kept on walking, even after the road turned into a mud slide:

When I reached the village of Shakpak Baba, I found out that it had no hotel. And it didn’t have a restaurant either. But it had four shops, one of which was pretty big:

I asked in every shop if they knew anyone who could maybe take me in for the night, but to no avail. They just kept repeating the same word: no, no, no, no.

The problem was this, though:

I had blown a tire.

So when this lady called Zoe saw me walking past her house, she asked me what I was doing and why I seemed to be so annoyed:

And after listening to my account of the events, she said I could just stay in her living room.

“Go in and sit down, I will make tea!” she said:

And she said it with such vigor that I just shut up and did as I had been told.