154 / like a mirage

It's country full of history, &, probably, not all of them

theres always posts & wires in the way

nearly always

or a giant sign..
The service stations are gigantic, large numbers of trucks.

a salt lake.
We're on the road to Urumqi, here, where there is
a good museum (in lieu of entering the city, where
there had been trouble the day before)