Believe it or not, time seems to fly by pretty quickly on the World by Road. Even though we were hiking through the sweltering heat and humidity of the jungles of Endau Rompin Malaysia over five months ago, it basically seems like yesterday. The scenery did not change much and the temperature essentially remained the […]
Author Archives: Steve Bouey
Keeping The Faith
November 9, 2007 – 6:03 am
I have to admit, our time spent in Kazakhstan was less than to be desired. A series of events, albeit isolated, left a pretty bad taste in our collective TWBR mouths and we were extremely ready to leave. I do not want to take our experiences in Almaty, Kazakhstan and use them to generalize the […]
TWBR Can Change You
November 8, 2007 – 6:04 am
TWBR has the ability to change a lot of things about you. TWBR has the ability to change the way you interact with people. TWBR has the ability to change the way you view the rest of the world. TWBR has the ability to change the way you look at yourself. Recently, I was looking […]
Apparently, We Are Not Alone
November 7, 2007 – 6:01 am
We have been through a descent number of countries on our way around the world, have seen our fair share of cars and have a pretty good grasp on the type of cars that seem to be most prevalent. Without a doubt, Toyota comes in as the heavyweight to date in terms of the sheer […]
Quick Update
November 5, 2007 – 4:55 am
Hello everybody! Sorry for the lack of communication or blog entries, but things are a little tougher than we expected here in Central Asia. Currently, we are in Toshkent, Uzbekistan having made it safely across the border from Osh, Kyrgyzstan without any problems… although we did have some leftover fireworks from China in the Thundra […]
Update From the “Stans”
October 30, 2007 – 12:08 am
Hello everyone. In-between trying to figure out visas for the rest of the Central Asia countries we are attempting to cross, still taking account for what exactly got stolen from us in Almaty and meeting some new friends, I thought I would give everyone a quick update. We are currently in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and we […]
It Was Bound To Happen
October 23, 2007 – 3:13 am
It was bound to happen. We knew in the planning phases of this expedition that even though you can minimize your exposure to theft, you can never fully protect yourself from it. We expected that we would become victims of theft at some point on the expedition, but it still does not make it any […]
Anomalty
October 23, 2007 – 2:16 am
Having watched the movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, I could not help but develop some preconceived notions of what Kazakhstan would be like, even though I knew the movie was fictitious and filmed entirely outside of Kazakhstan. My preconceived notions of Kazakhstan and its largest city, Almaty, […]
Basho Knew What He Was Talking About
October 22, 2007 – 2:28 am
Over the course of our expedition, we have received a lot of advice from many different people. On top of getting information about the country we are in or about a country we are traveling to in the future from locals, ex-pats, aid organizations staff and government workers, there is a plethora of information available […]
From Russia with Love
October 14, 2007 – 10:58 pm
Hello everyone! I just wanted to post a quick update to let everyone know that we are all fine and well here at The World by Road. We have successfully made it across western Mongolia and have crossed the remote mountain-top border at Tashanta into Russia. It was one of the most exhausting weeks in […]
