After collecting Maggie we were back on the road. First stop, strangely enough was to head north. Not ideal camping weather but we needed to collect some belongings we had left in Canada and even more strange was the desire to again sleep in the tent! We camped in a small campground by the beach […]
Reuniting with Maggie
Whilst in New York we received the news that Maggie was due to arrive in Seattle port on New Year’s Day. We spent New Year’s Eve at our friend Claire’s apartment in Vancouver, pretending that we were real people who don’t live out of a car! Due to the no work nature of New Year’s […]
The Big Apple
Seeing as you still cannot fly direct from Cuba to the USA we had to go via Canada and strangely enough you go through US customs whilst still on Canadian soil. Confidence that you are perfectly legitimate to enter the US is not quite enough when you have heard too many horror stories of nasty […]
El Cubano Libre
Our flight to Havana was a late one and Ryan kindly drove us to Vancouver Airport. In the check-in queue we noticed quite a lot of people in traditional Mexican dress. Closer to the counter we noticed a sign welcoming us to AeroMexico’s first flight between Vancouver and Mexico City (where our flight is stopping […]
Oh Canada
Arriving in Vancouver was like a breath of fresh air, literally. China was amazing, the food out of this world, but it was so nice to breath fresh mountain air and, I won’t lie, the ability to communicate in our native tongue was a pleasure! We landed and made our way easily through customs and […]
Trains, bikes and The Wall
Our Trans-Siberian train experience was exactly as we imagined it. Actually, it was as Hayden imagined it. Having caught an overnight train once before in Egypt I was a little sceptical of Hayden’s oriental romantic notions. However, the wooden interior and luscious maroon and gold carpet and upholstery exceeded all fantastical expectations! We even had […]
Lock and Load
We deliberately chose to arrive in Ulaanbaatar on a Sunday so we could begin to organise Maggie as soon as possible. Our plan to return to Russia and drive to Vladivostok had been somewhat foiled by our whole gearbox situation. Our extended Mongolian stay meant that our Russian visas will have expired (and the Russians […]
The road to Ulaanbaatar
Leaving Ulaangom was a highly anticipated event for us. There were several occasions when we had wondered if we were ever going to be able to leave. The day finally came and we woke to a grey sky and fairly heavy snow. Not ideal. However, there was no point waiting for better weather, the winter […]
Building a gearbox in Ulaangom
Let’s start with a confession. I am girl who can only drive an automatic car. I can count on one hand the number of times I have been behind the wheel of a manual car, some of these experiences slightly more successful than others. So it’s no surprise that when I can barely change gears […]
Big City Life
The first hurdle in getting a flight to Ulaanbaatar is the booking of the actual flight. Sure, this can be done on Skyscanner but it doesn’t actually offer you all available options, and doesn’t seem to match the actual timetable. So off I went to the Aero Mongolia office in town were you can purchase […]