Saint Petersburg, Russia
ST. PETERSBURG!!! FINALLY!!!
Saint Petersburg, Russia
ST. PETERSBURG!!! FINALLY!!!
Leningrad Oblast, Russia
Numb bums, snotty noses and (another) broken exhaust... But we're only 50km from St Petersburg! Woot!
Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
Good Lord, it's moist! Accidentally crashed a Russian gypsy wedding last night en route to a rainy little campsite by a lake. Here's hoping those loud bangs were firecrackers and not shotgun blasts... 2400km to St P!
, Russia
Ulaanbaatar to St. Petersburg....1903kms down. 4297kms to go.
, Russia
Lunch at the bottom of Lake Baikal. Not the 1700m deep bottom...the South bottom. Slowly trucking west.
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
On the plus side, the guy in the car next to us just gave us some lollipops to make our journey a little sweeter. Random Mongolian hospitality win!
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
So close, and yet still so far... Spent the last 2 hours in standstill traffic in UB. Still 10km from the finish line. Ughhhh... Gotta love those Mongolian roadworks!
Arkhangai, Mongolia
Are we there yet?! Still 300km from UB and very excited to be on bitumen. Probably should have read The Adventurists' advice about "sticking to the main roads" before following a Frenchman down a goat track in Western Mongolia 6 days ago.
Khovd, Mongolia
One failed river crossing, one billion car swallowing corrugations. 4 days to Ulaanbaatar.
Altai Krai, Russia
Easy entry to Russia after making some new friends in no-mans land and being gifted a bottle of Kazakhstan's finest Vodka. Legging it to the Mongolia border crossing this evening. Hopefully a hassle free entry to Mongolia tomorrow.
A recent graduate of architecture, Loren currently works as a freelance 'Ghost Artist'. Contrary to what the title suggests, this position involves neither drawing pictures of ghosts, nor being undead herself. In fact, she commands an army of robot minions to fabricate large-scale public art.
Which, in many ways, is weirder.
In 2012 she coined the term 'transcontinental part-time lover' to describe an ambiguous romantic entanglement with her brother's best mate. The phrase is expected to appear as the title track of Depeche Mode's next album.