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Road Trip Canada
Our road trip began in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Why does Michigan own the U.P? We don’t know. It borders Wisconsin- but they can’t...
The Mongol Rally Border Holding Pen — PART TWO –
It wasn’t that late when the army arrived. Five men in camouflage must have heard the guards were being treated like kings and wanted a...
The Mongol Rally Border Holding Pen – PART ONE –
From the previous post you learned we had trouble getting through the various windows to get through Mongolian customs and border control....
Mongolia, We’ve Arrived…….almost
We waited in line with the Belfast Boys who had arrived at the Mongolian border before us until 9:00am. As the gates were ready to open, a...
Border Crossing with Russia
We anticipated a bit of hassle crossing the Ukrainian border into Russia, but we in no way were prepared for the events that transpired...
A Long, Long Wait at the Border and Ukrainian Traffic Police
Crossing any protected border is a bit of a pain. Over the past few years we’ve had our fair share of problems at various border...
Mexico: A gringo story
Having always loved Latin music, food, clothing and culture, my first trip to Mexico was dreamt about for years before it actually...
Sarpi Border Crossing Into Turkey
Having crossed several borders, with shady officials and legitimate ones, we have now crossed the easiest border on the planet between the...
Baku The Ancient City with a New Face-lift
We arrived in Baku at 1:00am and disembarked from the ferry with a sigh, it had been an amazing trip, and although it was over 30 hours...
Into Turkmenistan by Foot
The rest of the day, including two long walks through no-mans-land between customs in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan seemed easy after dealing...
Goodbye Uzbekistan
After recovering the cell phone in Bukhara, we decided it was time to move on as we had been in Uzbekistan for almost 25 days and in...
The Longest, Most Corrupt Train in Central Asia
After sleeping in the Almaty-1 train station we boarded our first Kazakh train at 5:12am bound for Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The train arrived...
“Excuse me, do you have the swine flu?”
We took the 11:58pm train from Urumqi to Almaty, a 36 hour adventure across the Chinese border to Kazakhstan. Arriving early (as is my...
