Up, breakfast and into the vans more-or-less on time – the plan had been to be away at 0600, but it wa more like 0620 before our convey pulled out of camp Remarkably in the vans you don’t feel the…
Unexpected mountains of Mongolia (stage 25)
More like a mountain climber Looking back having made it across The steepest face But he’s still climbing The Mutton Birds – Dominion Road I spend a lot of each day with those lyrics going round and round in my…
Back on the road again (stage 24)
And the best of it was that for the first 37km it was actual tarmac road which was super nice. A number of the local cyclists who had come to the hotel last night also came out to join us…
Uneventful Ulaangom
Today has been a rest day, and I’ve been taking things very slowly…! I had a bunch of jobs to do, and I’ve pretty much got them all done, but it’s taken all day. I tried to have a sleep-in,…
Getting to Ulaangom (stage 23)
Awesome news to start the day – Liz got an email from (the other) Steve to say that he’d been able to get a set of replacement tent poles for me, that they were ‘only’ $130 USD (less than I’d…
The A18 heads west (stage 22)
The psychological boost of only having 100km to cover today was great – by the time we were over the bridge just out from camp and up to the town gate we were down to double figures to go! For…
Today was brought to you by the letters A, D, V, I and L (stage 21)
Ibuprofen was discovered in 1961 by Stewart Adams and marketed as Brufen. It is available under a number of trade names, including Advil, Motrin, and Nurofen. Wikipedia People’s alarms started going off from 0530 so not a lot of sleep…
Let’s be frank, today was shit! (stage 20)
Let me tell you why. I had a pretty significant crash at 98km. Yes Ants, my bike is fine (nothing that our super mechanic Jordan couldn’t sort in less than 10 min anyway). Me on the other hand I’m pretty…
First we freeze, and then we fry (stage 19)
It was -1ºC in my tent when my alarm went off at 0545 this morning, and -5ºC as I got on my bike to begin riding an hour later. By contrast by the time I arrived at camp this afternoon…
Rain, hills and sunshine (stage 18)
The forecast lies! It said there was a 30% chance of a shower at 0900 – what this apparently means is rain from 0645 until 0945. The upshot was a pretty chilly morning for me as I wasn’t really dressed…