Distance to home: 6234km, estimated day of arrival: 10.7.2016. Woke up very early and was very tired. Music played at least until 04:00 very loudly from downstairs and I did not manage to sleep that well, not even with earplugs on as whole house was vibrating as they played it …
Woke up early, nobody else was up yet when I started breakfast and trying if internet was any better when everybody was still sleeping. These guys from Germany had done similar tour I did back in 2010, so via Iran and then the Stans. Now they were flying back home …
Last night was a bit restless, lots of drunken Mongolians running around the hotel and making all sorts of funny noises… woke up early again – seems to become a habit. Elbow has still some issue, but hip is better so driving today is an option. Both of my arms …
Today after driving the southern route my plan is to take me to northern option. I found earlier on GPS log that the route I had planned took somebody two days to finish, but as it was less than 400km I thought that I will just do it in one …
I woke up before 07:00, a bit lazy morning to recover a bit from yesterday. My body was giving some unusual signs again that some extra activities has been done yesterday and everything was not back to normal. Coffee is a good start, did not bother to make any other …
Early morning again, almost everything was packed already yesterday and just needed to fill my water bags. For the first time I will now try how it feels to have 1.5L water in my back so that I can drink without getting off the bike. By 06:30 I was ready …
Alarm went of at 05:30 on my phone and I started cooking some coffee water to get make up and running. Morning looked really nice outside. By 06:30 I was ready to ride to Mongolian border to see if it is open or not. From Kosh-Agach border is some 50 …
Needed to wait until 07:00 before I got breakfast, while waiting for that I already had a coffee in a room as I woke up quite early. While waiting I was charging all of my GoPro batteries as scenery should start be much more enjoyable than in the past few …
Today I was not in a real hurry anywhere, had small breakfast at the hotel, did some planning for next day etc. After breakfast I went to local telephone operator store and purchased local prepaid SIM card with unlimited data service and some phone calls as well for a month. …
This time I really needed to wake up early as my checkout time was set to 07:00 due to me only paying for 12hrs at the hotel. Not a big deal, managed to get two cups of coffee and I was ready to ride again. I’m still in growing mode …
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