Last night was a disaster. We again found what looked to be a disused quarried area off the motorway. It was a bit scruffy looking but being late in the day, we needed to stop. Finding a flat area, camp was set up. After an interesting but tasty meal we…
Jen mentioned our excitement yesterday morning, with the cooker catching fire. It’s a Coleman two burner petrol cooker that has been working great till now. Sometimes it can over-fuel after filling but it hasn’t been a problem. Yesterday it would not burn cleanly. In my efforts to get it burning…
We had a great camp site last night and a good sleep. Probably 9 hours. Another excellent performance from the All Blacks to win their second game 40 – 12 yesterday. The girls had a excellent win too, in their test against Australia. On the road by 10am and made…
Last night’s camp was by a babbling river. One of the many feeding the lake and an opportunity to fill our depleted water reserves. Baikal is a fresh water sea. Up to 1600m deep and 636km long. According to Lonely Planet, is the largest fresh water lake in the world,…
As we wait at the Russian border for re-entry it’s a good time to recap on the day’s activities. Fortunately, or unfortunately, there have not been too many. The 300k plus drive from the capital was sealed and apart from smog and pot holes, trouble free. Reflecting back on our…
It ended up another epic day. Smooth enough for most of it, apart from the occasional massive hole in the road. Within 200k’s of UlaanBaatar it seemed that we were heading towards a serious fire. It must have been serious because it was on such a wide front. No, no…
First of all, Happy Birthday to Natsuki from us. xxx Natsuki is my lovely daughter-in-law, in Japan. Well, another challenging day of discovery. After waking at 7am with the soft patter of rain on the roof of the Landy we decided to pack up and cut a track. Mr Johnny…
A reasonable night’s sleep. Jen said, “I’m not feeling great”. Oh dear. Packing up we headed back to Ulaangom to find a pharmacy. First we needed to sort out our WiFi issues. That done, because without WiFi, we cant use Google Translate and without that, there is not much chance…
What a great night. We camped in a very exposed Steppe and at some point in the night I thought our whole setup was going to get blown down the hill back to Russia! The temperature must have been down to about 6deg but we were toasty warm in our…
Jeez! It’s hard to get a good night’s sleep, on the road. Well, not on it, beside it. The Caranex is our Achilles Heel when it rains. And boy, did it rain last night. I can’t believe the whole thing didn’t collapse under the weight of water that had collected…
