Russia 2 Part IV (Barnaul – St. Petersburg)

2017-11-19 After some rest and social recharging in Barnaul it was time to hit the road again. I drove for 3 days. Driving – sleeping – driving – sleeping – driving and sleeping. Since I’m writing this a few months after the trip, I’m not sure about some details anymore. Pictures tell me I was in Omsk for some minutes to restock on food and take some pictures. I slept in the car close to Read More →

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Russia 2 Part III (Aldan river – Barnaul)

Time to continue this blog! 2017-11-05 In the last post I ended up besides the semi-frozen Aldan river. And it was getting dark. So I decided to drive some kilometers back down the road towards Yakutsk again but quickly became tired and hungry. So I drove off the road into the forest and started making some dinner. The temperature was below -30 and it was rather painful to hold anything metal during the cooking. Also it takes Read More →

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Russia 2 Part II (Vladivostok – Yakutsk)

An icy post. 2017-10-26 (day 283) The trip back to the “what-to-do?”-point took another 4 days. The route was exactly the same as the route to Vladivostok. 3 nights in the car between the trees, one night in Khabarovsk, in the same hostel. 2017-10-29 (day 287) A few kilometers before the junction it started snowing. It was also cold so the road quickly turned white. I turned right, towards Yakutsk. It was getting dark and the sky cleared Read More →

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I’m an idiot!

Yes, I’m an idiot. First, even though I know that I would be leaving in the beginning of summer, that I would drive through Iran in mid-summer (+50˚C) and would end up in Russia in mid-winter (-50˚C), my mind was still made up to do it this way. Thinking more deeply about this, I figured that a lot more preparations and modifications are necessary to the car, to be able to actually survive the trip. Read More →

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