Doing the Mongol Rally

Crossing Borders with Natasha- Mongol Rally

We unpacked the whole car in the McDonald’s parking lot only to repack it all up again. We had to prepare – prepare for our…

I spend a lot of time looking out the window of our little Hot Box. Even though we don’t have time to really stop and…

Today we were on what seemed like a super highway for Ukraine as we traveled from Odessa to Kiev. Finally – some smooth tarmac…

Every day brings with it a new driving challenge in the Mongol Rally. Today’s challenge was potholes. We had heard horror stories about the roads…

This is exactly what I was trying to avoid…I was hungry and tired. A deadly combination for anyone who has to be near me. Unfortunately,…

While on the way to Kyiv, we received an email stating that our official V5 paperwork had arrived! This was great news as it would…

As we rolled into Volgograd (the former Stalingrad) it was filled with boxy cement architecture and crazy drivers. We stayed near the town center in…

Most of the time when I go to a country for the first time it’s all about shattering stereotypes that I was brought up with. …

We made it from Russia to Kazakhstan, but first, we had to cross a rickety pontoon bridge, which was quite an adventure! Then we abruptly…

Today sucked…really sucked. I expected the hard, slow, dirty driving in the Mongol Rally, but I wasn’t expecting it today. There really was no road…