Soon come: Crossing into Mongolia Early start to our goodbye to Baikal and nice cool weather and bright sun to set us on a course for Ulan Ude and the Mongol border. Our travels took us all along the southern shore of the inland sea, making...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]-the largest freshwater lake in the world Aug 11-13 Ah so nice to relax for a full day and two nights at a lakeside campground in Baikal. We stopped at a supermarket in Irkusk before driving the winding mountain roads along the lakeshore, so we were...
We were complaining about the poor road conditions earlier this morning, so karma decided to punish us with a turn to gravel from asphalt. Yep, the main highway connecting southern and central Siberia is only paved about half of the time. A long day, but thanks...
The small town of Kemarova boasted free wifi in the public squares and a huge variety of random statues, but we had a fruitless search for the hotel listed on the Internet booking site. However, while a few of us were out wandering in search...
August 7-8 We had a restorative breakfast after "sleeping" on the bus last night. Good eggs, sausage, and toast plus wonderful coffee, then finding the eclectic Hotel Barnaul to stay for a much needed hotel night before setting out north along what we hope are better...
A few photos from the random pile: Sarita and her stuffed chicken friend, scary basement dryers in Odessa, Bears and Llamas at the zoo hotel, Sarita and Caroline couch-sharing, the bus on the ferry crossing near Galati, Romania, and Don's gas station attendant friend adding a...
Eastern Ukrainian to the Russian border, July 24 and on to the Kazakhstan border July 25 Got a good start from the zoo hotel heading toward the Ukrainian border with Russia. Life on board settling to a new normal, with Pietro and Stefano fitting right in with...