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We cross the finish line @ 1am. Dave welcomed us with a fine brew. We're scruffy around the edges & quite happy we made it with sir muttley still intact.
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Black tie do in Ulan Bator will have to do without us. We are 650 km away and preparing for a night of Gin and tonic in our tuxedos in the desert. Nice. X
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Approaching Khovd with a punctured fuel tank and blown radiator hose, most likely as a result of hitting 63mph on these Mongol tracks.
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We cross into chilly Russia with half a cable tied exhaust, dodgy points&distributor,a fatigued throttle & 1 less than a complete set of shock absorbers
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Pulled an all nighter to get some distance under the belt. Slid our way thru a mudbath/road the Kazaks like to call the main road to their Capital city.
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En route 2 Astana, Kaz.We completely lost our muffler so we are sounding like proper rude boys.Also hit a pot hole so hard our rear view mirror came off.
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We are about 500 km north of Aktau trying to find some good roads to head east on. We had a points failure this morning - fixed by Ben "Good Lad" Kemp.
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A thoroughly draining couple of days on the ferry crossing+12 hours@kazakhstan customs.We finally got on the road an hour ago,with the kazak desert ahead
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Baku: made it by the skin of our teeth to the ferry to aktau. Lots of bribes though. A 21 hour journey across the caspian sea to look forward to. Nice.
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Location Tbilisi, Georgia. Just picked up azerbaijan visa for the Yank. En route to Baku - after much mayhem (we took the minor road from Batum to Tbilisi)
