Took us at least a couple of hours to cross into Azerbaijan, I noticed the border guards in the Georgian side are very busy eating sunflowers seeds, seems to preoccupy them so much we zipped through their side without a hitch, In the Azeri side a little more stricter and I thnik one of us has to have a physical check up at the border, i believe our co driver Toni volunteered but i haven't asked him of the outcome, soon as we crossed over we noticed a lot more progress in the Azeri side, the oil must really a bliss for the economy, whereas Georgia my impression is life is really hard, it's a struggle to make a living the economy is still struggling since the independence from the Soviets. We were supposed to
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