Jess MacDonald

Barnaul, Russia

Amazingly made into Russia after, smashing our sump, getting stuck in the sand several times, flat tyres and snapping both our leaf springs all in 3days, of course he best part was, when we were just about to admit defeat 200km for anywhere who and what turns up......4 Russians with a diesel "hot muffler" generator just for welding, now back on the road so fingers crossed we can at least make it into Mongolia!@

Shymkent, Kazakhstan

well that was a long way round to Shymkent, only took us 11hrs!! Very peaceful border crossing, Jess almost swapped numbers with a handsome devil of a border guard! Now sat on the roadside cooking pasta, Dans playing football manager, Pat listening to Harry Potter and Jess contemplating on going back to the border to get the number!

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

spent the last two nights treating ourselves in the Grand Turkmen hotel, swimming pool and all. Ashgabat really is the strangest, eccentric and marbled city we have ever been to, sadly we couldn't take many pictures as it's illegal, on out way to Merv for the evening then Uzbek on the 24th