Mid-june
Where: Tashkent
Greg's back and leg is too painfull for him to continue. A lombo-sciatic is diagnosed by Doctor Tom.

After several days stuck in the hotel room of a dodgy hotel in Tashkent we reach the conclusion that Greg should go back. Tom will continue for a week, visiting Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand.
Greg is repatriated to Paris by the insurance company.

Greg's "mot de la fin":
Some will say that our problems were a lack of "power" (power, a new term for "religion"!?!); I sincerely prefer Bouvier and Etienne's vision:

"On voyage pour que les choses surviennent et changent; sans quoi on resterait chez soi."
Nicolas Bouvier

" Il faut faire aimer aux gens ce qui fait l'etoffe de leur quotidien. C'est comme pour les conteurs d'histoires : finalement, peu importe ce qu'ils racontent, pourvu qu'ils y mettent du coeur. Comme toujours, le chemin compte davantage que l'endroit ou il mene."
Jean-Louis Etienne

Tom's "mot de la fin":
soon...