Kars to Tasucu Next thing that looked pretty interesting, in Turkey , was a place called Ishak Pasa Palace , near the town of Dogubayazit . Mount Ararat is easily in sight around here. The road is near the borders of Armenia and Iran so there are police/military stops. Mostly Read more…
Gelendzhik to Kars Aw Shit On our way to Dombay, as so many other times, we were stopped at a police check. This was one that writes your car and passport info into a big logbook. They noticed that the date put on the temporary car and bike papers Read more…
Shymkent to Gelendzhik Between Taraz (a Silk Road town) and Shymkent we stayed the night in the parking lot of a mausoleum called Aysha-Bibi., reputed to be about a thousand years old and one of the best in the area. They even had a john there. Figured this could be Read more…
Illiquidity Tomsk is a civilized place. Even had public johns right near Lenin’s statue, which is in the middle of downtown. It did cost 30R to use them. In my illiquid state, that seemed like a bargain. After a coupla days I carefully snuck up on a dry fart. Happy Read more…
Ulaanbaatar to Tomsk Tomsk on the map Propain So we went back to the air camp, after getting the passports back, so we could head out to new venues. Were a little late because Marisol ran across an American buy called Darrel who lived in UB. She trotted him by Read more…
Vladivostok to Ulaanbaatar Sat in the van all day the 22nd waiting to get the plates. One time about midday I saw a guy drive up in a van and head toward the front door of The Jing Long, with what looked like a FedEx envelope. This was looking Read more…
Top of the World to Vladivostok Three days before departure date I get this email message that says everything the Visa guy was supposed to do, wasn’t going to happen. He claimed he could get us multiple entry one-year business visas for Russia and would get visas for both Read more…
Gettin Started Howdy Buckeroos, Here we go again. Details, details, details. To get going is all about details. You CAN take it with you, in fact if you forget something you have to deal with it for a long time. We took the van and bike over to Read more…