Cry? What? Most people who know me must be thinking; what is it that would lead a hardened individual, molded and forged in the fires encountered while driving a couple Toyotas around the world to be driven to tears. Well, simply put, it is the simple gestures and words of encouragement from people we meet […]
Category Archives: Asia
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 […]
Laos National Radio Interview
September 25, 2007 – 6:51 am
It has taken a little while, but here is the interview that we did on Laos National Radio. In the more remote parts of the province they are not able to get the radio signal, so they take tapes that are played everywhere on a loud speaker. So imagine this belting our from the PAs […]
China – The Final Tally
September 23, 2007 – 3:26 am
Aside from organizing and packing about 100 pounds of carvings, textiles, Vietnamese snake wine and other various souvenirs we have acquired along our journey to ship back home, we have had a little down time and this has enabled me to calculate just how much money we spent getting our trucks into and driving them through China. The final cost of […]
The thing about roads
September 22, 2007 – 3:11 am
Our last days in China and our first days in Mongolia are the textbook definition for contrast. Although neighbors, these two countries share little in common other than a border. The last week for us has been highly eventful to say the least. Driving in the desert with a young guy from China lends time for many questions. The […]
Things Are Starting to Get Interesting
September 20, 2007 – 5:32 am
When we left on The World by Road seven months ago, we knew that were were going to see some eye opening things, meet some interesting people and experience a lot of things that for us at the time would seem pretty out of the ordinary. For the most part, the trip has not disappointed in this regard and […]
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 […]
Almost as Famous as Our Trucks
September 11, 2007 – 5:05 am
Since we have been on the road, we have had countless people approach us and give us support and words of encouragement for what we are doing. I think part of it is definitely the fact that we have some pretty flash trucks. (Yes I am incorporating some of the slang from the various countries we […]
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 […]
Knocking off the k’s
September 3, 2007 – 7:53 pm
Over the last few days the ground beneath the trucks has been flying by. After finally getting all of our paperwork straight and all of the “inspections” done, we made our way to Kunming, a day later we raced off to Dali, Li Shaing followed by Tiger Leaping Gorge and now we are hours away from […]
