This morning we awoke to a cloudless sky and the sun (which rises at 4h00) already burning away on what would become the warmest day we had so far on this Leg, 22 degrees. Most of this trips riding has happened at between 12 and 15 degrees, (and every now and then it dipped below 10 gegrees.)

We found the only other hotel guest at our “5 Star” hotel this morning where we left him the night before, at the bar, still with a Vodka in front of him next, to his fried egg and pancakes, but from his hair I could see that he was horisontal since the last time I saw him at 2h00.… Read More

This morning we entertained Sergey’s kids and tested the parking attendants photography skills, he needed glasses as after several attempts of taking our photo I gave-up asking him to take another.

This morning Pie raced off with Sergey hanging on the back pf Tex’s bike to collect the “spacer-disc” Pie ordered for his clutch. Sergey phoned a friend who knew a farmer who owned a horse which was ridden by the daughter of a woman who was married to a man who built his own airoplane, so he was sent a text with the size of a disc to be cut to be “popped” into Pie’s clutch to fill the gap of the parts he burtn-off when pulling the Toyota out of the mud.… Read More

This is how the people in Siberia who stays in the little wooden houses we saw stays warm at minus 50 degrees. They have a very big stove in the centre of the house, with very thick walls, there is even a sleeping area on top and to the side of the stove and this wood fired stove keeps them warm and is used for cooking as well.… Read More

I forgot to explain some of todays photos. Actually I did jot forget, I just did not have time as life goes on around me and I have to move with the group, so I have very limoted time to post the photos and write this blog and have to do so in the time I wait for the others, sitting in the hotel reception using the free wi-fi, and as you know Murphy, just as I am getting stuck-in they are ready and we have to move, also the reason why I dont correct my spelling mistakes some times.… Read More

We went for a stroll along the river, eating ice-cream and just trying to blend-in, but both Peens and I were wearing our Tour-shirts and people would stop us and try to have a conversation with us, some could speak some English and were so proud of it, some wanted selfies and others just stared, we do look like a strange bunch of guys, plus now we have Natasha and the two kids with us.… Read More

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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

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