Electrical short on battery melted battery lead.
Leaving Tehran we developed a wheel wobble, had to move the roof rack to the front of LD, it cured the wobble. Covered 200 miles to the Caspian sea through Sari, and barren Mountains, holes in side of mountains turned out to be coal mines, all along the length of the road just holes with small piles of coal mined out. Night time we stop at Behshahr near the Caspian Sea pulled into a tobacco research farm and were invited to stay in the chemist’s house. We all slept on the floor in his front room; though he was prepared to let us have the bedroom. Anything we wanted he would try and get for us. We ate a good meal together and had wine, Pat and Lee were very dubious about staying but it was very safe, a nice and very generous person.