Day 115 (Iran): Tehran

Another short day: I met Jan and Alex - it has been a while since we’ve been in touch. Well, we’ve been sending 19 emails back and forth to be exact. Gmail let’s you know as much. This is one of those stories. Antoinette, who spent some time at my place during her Europe bike ride last summer, at one point sends me an email saying that a couple who have spent time at her place are on their way around the globe by camper van. Sounds like a fantastic journey.

The two of them and I have been in touch for a while over email, but have so far been unable to meet up. Now, this is finally the day this was to happen. I meet them in the center of Tehran, but because Alex isn’t feeling well we resolve to meet again in a couple of days. It was good fun at any rate …

My search for Loctite has been unsuccessful … it doesn’t seem like it is something that anyone really knows. I talked to an engineer and he doesn’t know the stuff. I am sure that most cars contain Loctite in some way, shape or form, but that didn’t ring a bell either. I need it for holding a nut in place that keeps shaking loose and the search for nylock nuts (a special kind of nut preventing slippage of nuts from screws) proved equally fruitless. Oh well, there are other ways and means to fix the screw into place. The glue that people wanted to sell me instead isn’t one of them.