Bleached Bones!
Scott wrenching the skull from a cow's carcass. The idea was to attatch it to the front of his bike! Put it down to "Desert Craziness"!
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The Mongols gained fame in the 13th century when under Chinggis KHAN they conquered a huge Eurasian empire. After his death the empire was divided into several powerful Mongol states, but these broke apart in the 14th century. The Mongols eventually... [read more]
The Mongols gained fame in the 13th century when under Chinggis KHAN they conquered a huge Eurasian empire. After his death the empire was divided into several powerful Mongol states, but these broke apart in the 14th century. The Mongols eventually... [read more] Blog: Cycling into the Wilderness - The Gobi Crossing
Date: October 23rd 2006
Day 142, 20th October Ulaan Baatar - Khooltyn Davaa Nothing more has put fear into our hearts more so than crossing the Gobi Desert on our bikes. We’ve heard stories that the road is non-existent, there is very little water, and we could get frozen to death. Still, four crazy guys on bicycles keeping the tran-Mongolian railway in view shouldn’t have much of a problem - we could still f ... read more
Date: October 23rd 2006
Day 142, 20th October Ulaan Baatar - Khooltyn Davaa Nothing more has put fear into our hearts more so than crossing the Gobi Desert on our bikes. We’ve heard stories that the road is non-existent, there is very little water, and we could get frozen to death. Still, four crazy guys on bicycles keeping the tran-Mongolian railway in view shouldn’t have much of a problem - we could still f ... 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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