Fri 19th Hard day on the road

Got away from Quetta in the misty sunlight and into the Bolan Pass.
That was fantastic. bThe rock walls the train running through and the ruggedness of the environment.
Then it all came to a stop.
Road blocked.
Ride down the river bed I was instructed by the Police that had suddenly appeared. So I did. That was a challenge. However I made it. The problem came when I got back on the road by now totally covered in mud. My escourt started to wave frantically that I should speed up, I looked in the mirror into a grill (highly decorated) sitting on my topbox, so by instinct I accellerated....wrong thing to do as I lay face down in the road with the bike on my right foot.
That was nasty and I had a very sore foot.
I was escorted to the next town, second biggest in the province, where the local doctor applied some eniesthetic and a bandage and I was off to the Police station where they impounded the bike and took me to a "hotel" where I was told not to leave !
Fortunately there were a couple of agricultural consultants in the next room that ordered me some food so I eat and lay fully clothed in the dirtiest smelliest room I have ever occupied, with a "toilet" that I was not game to enter. The smell with the door closed was bad enough.
Not a good outcome but without the spill would have been a big adventure day.
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