Today we had a short day as we want to spend some time in Karina’s town, we all met her when she visited RSA for a three month holiday and we had time to invite her for dinner and show her South Africa. She is a ballon pilot, a snow-ski-kite instructor and flies for Russian Paragliding team.
Sergey’s ex-wife and two kids followed us per train and we are a big group today.… Read More
If you would like to see the interview on the news, go to http://www.tv2.tomsk.ru/online/
We are still far North and as a result the time-lines are close together, so we crossed over another time-line today, we are now 5 hours ahead of RSA.
There are no tourists where we are, only truckers, few cars. The people we meet think we are hunters (due to the horns on our bakkies grill.)… Read More
Today I woke up and looked out our hotel window which was accross the station, it was going to be a wet day, a day to zip-in all the layers inside your riding jacket and start the day with your rain-suit already on. A good day for listening to music, I chose all the music I own featuring Roger Water, and it turned out to be perfect music for a wet day.… Read More
I am not having fun with this I-pad and finding it very frustrating to use, will in future pack the lap-top.
Here are two photos that I missed by finger-fault, (sorry guys, computers and I am not good friends.)… Read More
Last night we slept 15km out of town at a Holiday Camp at a lake, as we could not find accommodation in the town. Once again we had to drive through a little village to get to the accommodation, see photo of lake and village.
There might have been three families there with small kids, but in Russia a holiday is a luxury and very few people ever have a chance to go on a proper holiday and travel.… Read More
Last night Serey (now I am spelling it correctly,) found us the correct globe from local motorspare shop, (yes KTM uses a standard globe,) and it was fitted with the help of Rocky reading the manual while Pie and Tex followed his instructions.
We went for a long walk looking at the town, our hotel is what Sergey calls Soviet Hotel, (big building with huge facade and grand staircase and a coat-check-in for over a 100 coats,) but it has seen better days and you can only see how grand it must have been 50 years ago.… Read More
Sergey took them on an adventure and they got the Toyota stuck.
Note the “rescue vehicle” it is called a Patriot Yaz, there are thousands still on the road and you see them everywhere. They were built in the 60’s and today there are newer models on sale.
I forgot to tell you about the vehicle and trailer we got on the road today, the wife was found at the trailer, we stopped and asked if we could help her but she indicated we could not.… Read More
How do I even begin to describe todays adventure? This morning we all rode the 1st 20km together (and the total kilometers traveled on this trip since we left London clicked over the
30 000km mark) to the begining of our planned “road” which turned out to be a farmers mud-track. My arm was still sore from yesterday so I decided to find another less muddy road.… Read More
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