Rough guide

It has been requested a few times for us to provide a rough guide of the direction we plan to travel. Sorry I’ve been so slack in preparing this. Most of this has been ripped off Long Way Round which saved heaps of time locating and specifying each waypoint. We’re starting in Vladivostok and driving up to Magadan via the ‘Summer Road’ then returning to Yakutsk via the new road via Ust Nera. From there we’ll be heading towards Mongolia, but according to our map we’re not certain a road exists. Others have done it, so it must, but it’s not marked.

Make sure you’ve got Google Earth installed, then click and open the link below.

https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/group/gec-travel-information/attach/87090b0c91dd15c9/19990355-7fb3-40f5-bc13-bd3956d20e75.kmz?part=4&authuser=0

Well, all seems to have gone to plan. Customs has cleared successfully, we just need to be provided with a pickup time from the terminal building. It’s a bit convoluted, but at 10AM we’ll receive an email or a call advising when we are to pick up. It’s about an hours walk from here (maybe a tad more), so hopefully we’re given enough time. We are aware of bus links down that way, but we’re concerned if we have a set time, but uncertain transport then perhaps going on foot will be more guaranteed. We would hate to miss the pick up!
If we’re able to pick up the car by roughly mid day, we’ll cancel our remaining hotel nights and leg it! Very exciting.
We then promised to drop by the shipping company to deliver some gifts and pose for photos which although it’s a chunk of time out of our day, they have enabled us this far, we owe it to them.

It’s crazy I know, but we feel so at home now in our smelly room, we’re certainly going to miss it. We bought a heap more groceries tonight, so we’re geared up for tomorrow.

From here out we’re not going to be as connected so our posts will be perhaps more infrequent, but hopefully higher quality. We’ll still be getting all your comments no matter where we are, so keep them coming. Just a reminder, we’ll be making spot messages from here on, so it may make for a good viewing. These are available on the left hand side of this page.

Ok guys – see you out on the road.