I arrived in Aktau by boat, sharing the 24-hour Caspian Sea crossing from Azerbaijan with a truck driver named Yirkin, who was hauling electrical machinery from Poland to China. He’d been driving for seven days, and had at least another six ahead of him before reaching Ürümqi.
Wedged between our bunks, we talked about our homes — his city of Aktau, capital of Kazakhstan’s Mangystau region, my Canadian prairie. He wanted to know about drivers’ salaries in Canada. I gave him a fair…
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