After being rained in for one whole day we headed for Uliastay. The road was wet and slippery but not too bad and progress was good through very green low areas with the usual rolling hills with some trees on the slopping sides and as we rode across the plains we could see storms off in the distance where we had come from and we managed to avoid some storms as we headed for higher mountains in the distance. We passed over the mountains and stopped at a small town...

We only travelled a bit over 100Ks from Ulaanbaatar before we set up camp as Ben needed to go back in to UB to get his replacement credit card on the Monday. We found a nice spot in the steppes and set up camp. We could see some Gers a fare way off so expected a visit. That visit came Monday morning while Ben was getting ready to head into UB, a horseman in his twenties arrived and after some attempted conversation we thought we had worked out which Ger he had co...

I told you I would write a blog on Nature's Door, so here it is. When we arrived at Nature's Door we weren't sure if it was open, but as we pulled up out the front people ran out to great us, something that doesn't usually happen. We were then invited in and shown where we could set up camp. We set up camp and were then invited by the owner Otgo to have afternoon tea with bread and jam with her. It was lovely and Otgo told us about Garage 24 and about Nature's Do...

It has been nearly two weeks now since we arrived in Mongolia. The first week we spent traveling to Ulaanbaatar and what a week it was. We had some amazing camp sites, saw some breath taking views and had experiences that will stay with us for ever, the most notable was when we stopped for lunch one day. We had pulled the usual two hundred meters off the road and started to prepare lunch when also as usual, a horseman showed up to say hello and to make conversati...

After traveling from Khabarovsk to Chita along the M58 we could forgive the Russians for the M60. The M58 was 2,200Km of some of the best road in the world, it was a beautiful piece of engineering taking us through some wonderful countryside and connecting us with some great people and memories. Notable events along the road were a roadside cafe that had a brown bear in a cage for travelers to look at, a roadside hotel that we stayed in where the owners were putt...