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This morning before we left when we were waxing our bike chains we discovered that Tex’s pannier bracket had broken from all the vibration and abuse and the panniers had to be loaded in the Land Cruiser

Irkutsk is a very nice city and still have many of the same wooden-framed houses we see in the rural villages. It also has beautiful buildings.… Read More

The sun sets at 22h00

Last night we went for a stroll along the lake (Sergey and Tex went for a 15km run before our little walk, they are making us feel very guilty.) We stopped at the local fish market and bought some smoked fish found in the lake, Omul & Grayling, Sturgeon is also found in the lake but may not be caught.… Read More

Our Motel of last night

Today we stopped at a village along the way where I bought some honey and jam from the forrests, there was also lots of flowers on sale for the people to go and put on the graves, it is big thing to do this time of the year.

I forgot to comment last night on the one photo of a green statue of a soldier, it was at the end of a small village with 70 houses in the village, and on the monument and statue were the names of the soldiers who died from that village in WW2, and there were 58 names, almost one death per little house.… Read More

Yesterday we took a stroll along the river in town, the wooden carved window frames from the villages were also in this city, Irkutsk, very traditional of Russian houses. You could see the city was ready for the summer rush, but the people have still not arrived, (but maybe they will not arrive this year,) times are tuff in Russia, in spite of most people we speak to feeling very united and “in-step” with their leader, Puttin, and his vision and actions in Ukraine.… Read More

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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