Total Blackout & Point of return

After a horrible night (Anke chooses the worst mattress in ages and I have an imaginary tick attack, but that's another story...) Anke prepares fried Parasol Mushrooms (we hunted down yesterday) for breakfast and I start packing the Buddha.

To my surprise the "Low Battery Alarm" is blinking - and low them batteries are. No start is possible now.

Great, no 24 V charger along, no other car or truck in sight.

I call our host and she comes along with her car and a 2nd set of charger cables. Meanwhile I disconnect the two 12 V batteries and start charging them parallel and individually with the two sets of charger cables. And I start to search for the reason why the batteries were empty in the first place.

Let me tell you that much - had I met the guy that fucked up the electric wiring on this truck, I'd probably run out of friendly words rather quick.

In this case the joke is on me, after all I knew that the wiring was done by a total looser and I had just been to lazy to eleminate the worst traps.

Hardly two hours later the truck is running and we were on the road to finally spend some time on the shores of Lake Peipus.

What a wonderful place to be - even with ice cold and gusty Eastern winds.

Needless to say that despite the weekend coming up we find a great place with a sauna and good mattresses (although we have to fight to take Paula with us into the Hotel - on their German sight it says "Dogs allowed", on the English and Estonian site they charge €50,- per animal and night. For that kind of money in the future we'd be traveling with an elephant).

Good night.Read more