Mongolia to Russia

Life has been a bit fraught to say the least recently. I can't really remember individual days, so lets do a resume of our adventures to date:

We left U B full of hope and armed with a little for-knowledge of what was in store. Sadly that for-knowledge lasted about two hours; a couple of route changes later and we were shot.

Over the subsequent days we've had three broken springs and two ruptured
fuel tanks. We’ve driven over 1000km with only the front brakes, and more than that with no hand brake.

Still it’s not all about breaking the car:

Mongolia was great but really took its toll on all the gear and drivers. Mind you, the locals, when we have had time to meet them, were great. On one particular night we arrived on a forecourt at 11pm having driven all day, by 7am we’d had a very short nights sleep and were ready to roll for the Mongolian/Russian border.

Two days into Russia and we had a rest day (ho-ho), that meant time to fit new springs and a new fuel tank as the old one was damaged. You can imagine the scene when they tried to change it, and the loud bang. Since then it’s been more or less the same, apart from the odd spring going, a leaky fuel tank and the brakes. We are still hanging in there though.

That’s all for time being

John and Ed are currently spending their nights, when they’re not out boozing with the locals, taking it in turns to cuddle the fluffy lion they discovered in the back of the car… bless.