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Earle
Lowe uses his superb problem solving skills to fix a bad connection from
yet another alternator problem. Moments after the shutter snapped, Earle
burns his hand on the exhaust manifold. Ouch!
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October
17, 1999
Hello. This
is Earle Lowe on the 1999 Around the World team calling to you from Dongxing in Inner Mongolia, the Inner Mongolian
autonomous region of China.
I would first
like to answer a question from Jim Hatfield on our web site. We are at 39 degrees 48 minutes North, 109 degrees 59 minutes East.
He wants to know the latitude and longitude so he could follow us on a map.
And if you are following, tomorrow we are going to make a push for Zhongwei. That is also in Inner Mongolia*. It will be a significant travel day for us
tomorrow of several hundred kilometers.
Today we
experienced our first significant vehicle problem where one of the
alternators on one of our Land Rovers failed. We managed to make it to a
failrly large city called Hohhot, and this morning we managed to have a new
alternator put in with the help of some very friendly and extremely helpful
Chinese mechanics.
So we are now
running with a Chinese alternator (quite happily)
in one of our
Land Rovers. Despite this incident and the delays it has provided our trip,
everyone is very upbeat, the
Rovers are
running quite well, and we anticipate making up any time lost tomorrow.
And that's
it! Thank you very much. Goodbye.
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