From Nizhny Novgorod we drove a bit pass Moscow, managed to go around Moscow and not stuck on the traffic. Weather was good, quite a lot of smoke everywhere. Managed to find small motel just by the road and our day was there! Total mileage for the day was …
At russian still, some 1000km to Espoo. Tomorrow at st. Petersburgh and then to finland2.8.2010 22:47:45
We got wake up visit at 07:00 as agreed on the night before, had quick breakfast and packing and off we go again. After driving some 2 hours we had first stop and during this stop we noticed that Kari had a nail through his rear tyre so our intended …
Day started early, sleeping place was not the best possible… Quick packing and some water from the nearby gas station and off we went. For few kilometres. Then it was time for breakfast. Once we managed through this we started moving again. From Troitsk road was excellent, we headed towards …
Crossed Russian-Kazakhstan border late last night and got sleeping place from old train just 15km from border 31.7.2010 3:31:30
From Astana we planned to start going forward with a breakfast at the hotel. In this hotel breakfast started as late as 08:00, so we actually got around 09:00 to the road again. Plan was to drive as close to Russian border as possible. Once we got out from the …
For this day we had last night agreed to stay in Astana. I was going to get my motor oil and filter changed, had already 9000 kilometres from the last one back at local BMW dealer in Antalya. While searching for a place using Google I managed to find one …
At 07:00 we started packing our bikes again, long way to go for this day. When driving along Lake Balkhash we had very heavy side wind which slowed us down a lot. Road was in pretty good condition except one part: At first we saw one car which had rolled …
This time day started without any breakfast and quite early. We had some issues finding hotel stuff on this early hour in morning, but eventually we got them and they came to open the backdoor for us to get bikes out on the road. Right after we left from Toktogul …
Morning came again and it was time to leave from Sary-Tash. From the bicyclist we had already learned that we would go into some high mountain passes again, road would be under construction for the first 70 kilometres or so. There were Chinese road workers everywhere building new road over …
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