The edge of Bashkhoristan
It was flat until I reached the Bashkhir border, upon which there was this first climb, the foothills of the Urals no less.
Blog: BASHKHORISTAN - and into the Urals
Date: August 13th 2006
Day 68, 7th August. Marx - Balakovo - Pugachev It was raining when I awoke, my legs were aching, I felt tired, my body said to me, “one more hour, you have every excuse to sleep … go on”. But my mind told me to get up and get moving. So I did just that and hit the road in the rain. Not long after, the rain stopped for the day and the wind was in my favour as I headed east and slig ... read more
Date: August 13th 2006
Day 68, 7th August. Marx - Balakovo - Pugachev It was raining when I awoke, my legs were aching, I felt tired, my body said to me, “one more hour, you have every excuse to sleep … go on”. But my mind told me to get up and get moving. So I did just that and hit the road in the rain. Not long after, the rain stopped for the day and the wind was in my favour as I headed east and slig ... read more
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“2001 a Bike Odyssey Memorablog”. This blog is a memorial blog to the 2001 bikepacking trip which started out from central England on 1st June of that year. It is being updated every few days exactly five years after the original trip took place, and written word for word from Andy Ganner’s journal. Andy Ganner set out with three people he had only met through the internet to travel completely by bike to Singapore. The planned route was eastwards across Siberia, and then down through Mongolia and China, finally crossing South East Asia to reach Singapore sometime early the follo... full info
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