When we first encountered water that would could not get the trucks through in Laos, we realized that we could wait no longer for some lifts on the trucks. With the roads as bad as they are in some parts of this journey, backtracking as little as 75km can take the better part of a […]
Category Archives: Road Conditions
The modern wild west.
October 21, 2007 – 1:03 am
On October 7th we left Ulaanbaatar for Western Mongolia. With a Lonely Planet guide and a China/Mongolia map our confidence was high that we should not have to many problems making our way to the Russian border. The last night before we left Chinzorig gave us a quite helpful piece of advice. He told us, […]
Ha Ha Ha, even the roads are hard for us.
October 10, 2007 – 10:29 am
This blog has posted today, but was written nearly a week ago:) Tonight we ate our final dinner in Ulaanbaatar before we head west through Mongolia to Russia tomorrow morning. Chinzorig of Drive Mongolia and his wife joined us and we discussed the best routes to take west. No matter who you talk to, Mongolian […]
If It Isn’t One Thing…
October 3, 2007 – 10:35 pm
I am sure all of you are pretty sick of Steve and I telling you how crazy, bad, rough, or whatever negative adjective you choose, some of the roads are that we have encountered on the expedition. There are obviously plenty of other things to write about so this will be the last one for […]
Roads? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Roads
September 30, 2007 – 10:30 pm
It has been a few days since our last blog posting, but out here in the wild, wild west, I mean east, when you drive 20 minutes outside of Ulaanbaatar, you are pretty much stepping back into the past and things like internet connections do not exist nor are they necessary. We recently got back […]
One of the Coolest Roads in The World
September 16, 2007 – 10:47 am
Since our main mode of transportation around the world is by truck, we are always looking for interesting, scenic, and sometimes dangerous roads to drive our Toyotas down. We are constantly on the lookout for something amazing or out of the ordinary because you just never know when you will be driving your own vehicle in that part of […]
China is Starting to Take its Toll
September 10, 2007 – 4:56 am
Getting into China was quite an undertaking for TWBR and we were excited to get finally get in. However, given the shear size of China and the amount of time we had been granted to get through it, we knew we were in for some long days on the road. As expected, driving in China […]
