So it is now Sunday the 24th of July. Robert asks the hotel clerk to telephone the insurance agent for us. No answer. May be he is at a Sunday church service which can last 3 hours. Try again in 1/2 hour. The agent answers. He will meet us at his office in 1 hour. Off we go with the address in hand from him. We ask for more directions as we drive. 6 kilometers more the man says. We drive. Finally stop and ask a cab driver. He will guide us there. We drive and drive. Finally he stops and asks a shop owner. The address must be similar to a street or area of the town, but it turns out the agent is actually in Tbilisi the capitol were we are heading. Man, that is several hundred kilometers away. We decide to press on with no vehicle insurance.Our plan was to continue North along the sea coast to Poti, Georgia and than head East and stop at Khasuri. Since we were a days planned drive behind more or less, we drove North a shorter distance along the coast of the Black Sea through a few resort towns until I found a black and white secondary road that headed East South of Poti which would cut off some driving time. We decided to take it. Driving was at steady speeds for the most part. I started driving and Robert took a nap on stretcher in back of the ambulance.
The road we were on appeared to follow the along pretty close to what was shown on the map, but it was off quite a bit at times. After the by-pass we took, I ended up back on the original route planned heading East. It took us through beautiful winding roads with great expanses of panoramic views of the distance fields and rolling moderately high hills. Unfortunately, the road demanded my full time attention so I couldn't take any pictures. (Later when Robert began to drive again, I opened the large map we were using to find out what kind of road a black and white marked road was. It turned out to be a railroad track.)
This is a two lane - one lane in each direction road. People are passing three abreast all the time. It is like a go cart race. At one bend in the road, one car has crashed still upright. the other is upside down all tore to hell. Another missed photo op. I try to pass a semi- trailer truck at a crawling speed only to have to have the truck stop along with us as a speeding car comes around the bend in the road at high speed.
We stopped to study the maps and take a break. We decide to just drive all the way to Tbilisi today. That will put us back on schedule, but we will be a day early for our visa entry date into Azerbaijan. So we will be spending a second day in Tbilisi the capitol of Georgia. We hope there is something worth visiting there as the country side though beautiful looks pretty basic hinting little in the way of attractions even in the country's capitol city.
Robert takes over the driving as we begin to approach Tbilisi at dusk. He stops to try to ask concerning a place to stay for the night. It is very hot, and we both could use a proper bathing facility. There is a man who happens to be at the station getting fuel. He speaks perfect English. David is with the United Nations Monitoring Mission here in Georgia as a result of the 2008 war with Russia. (Russia still has troops in Northern Georgia today as a "policing" action.
David suggests a couple of places to stay in the down town near "Friendship Square. We check into the Ambasadori Hotel after much walking around. I shower, have a breakfast bar and go to bed.
Match the Captions With the Photos:
-Blue Light Specials!
-Eastern Hog.
-Made it!!
-Meals on Wheels.
-Hey Hay!
-Hope Nothing Break.
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