What I see out my window – Mongol Rally
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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 experience the countries we are racing through, we can see a lot of the countryside that many tourists never see. I think the weirdest thing is to realize that we are moving ahead in time every day, adding hours as we pass through time zones, yet we are actually moving back in time when it comes to what I see out my window.
The living conditions seem to get more hearty, and you see many more people sitting by the side of the road selling vegetables and seasonal fruit. We moved from European cars to horse carts. And each town seems to get boxier in architecture and a bit more run down. We travel in comparatives as it gets hotter every day, the roads get worse, and gas gets cheaper. Plus – the toilet conditions deteriorate slowly with every stop we make.
It’s weird to travel this way, to move backward and forwards in time. So much to take in and no real time to process it.
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- It’s Real Now – Starting the Mongol Rally
- Pimpin’ Our Ride
- Festival of Slow – Mongol Rally Kickoff
- First Stop – Brussels
- Stopped by the Police – Mongol Rally
- Learning to Drive on the Autobahn
- CzechOut our Camping – Mongol Rally
- Racing Through Prague – Mongol Rally
- Driving in Romania
- Twilight in Brasov – Mongol Rally
- Crossing Borders with Natasha- Mongol Rally
- What I see out my window – Mongol Rally
- Ukraine Highway Culture – Mongol Rally
- Mongol Rally: Driving in Ukraine
- Hotel Nissan – Mongol Rally
- Kiev Paperwork Forgery – Mongol Rally
- Teaming up in Volgograd – Mongol Rally
- Russian Stereotypes
- Good Luck at the Kazakhstan Border – Mongol Rally
- The Hardest, Longest, Slowest, Dirtiest Road Yet – Mongol Rally
- The End of The Road – Mongol Rally
- Camping on the Mongol Rally
- Locals to the Rescue – Mongol Rally
- Setting Up Camp – Mongol Rally
- Bad Things do Happen on the Mongol Rally
- The Birth of Kazakhstan Tourism – Mongol Rally
- Kazakhstan’s Secret City – Astana
- The Best Laid Plans – Mongol Rally
- Our Car’s Health – Mongol Rally
- My ride in a Kazakhstan Police Car – Mongol Rally
- The Real Adventure Begins – Mongol Rally
- Minor Repairs – Mongol Rally
- How To Wait at a Border – Mongol Rally
- Border Bonding – Mongol Rally
- Mongolia Freedom – Mongol Rally
- Lost in the Mongol Rally
- Slowing Down – Mongol Rally
- The Mongol Rally Diet
- Muffler Mayhem – Mongol Rally
- Sink or Float – Mongol Rally
- Mongolian Hospitality – Mongol Rally
- Driving in Mongolia
- Tire Trouble – Mongol Rally
- Desert Illusions – Mongol Rally
- Mongolian Malls and Mechanics
- Shocking Tarmac – Mongol Rally
- Mongolian Cloudscapes – Photography
- Ulaanbaatar in our Sights
- The Finish Line – Mongol Rally
- What’s it all for?
- What Happens to the Car?
That “run down industrial view”is a power plant and its cooling towers. The condition being what it is, I can only hope it’s not a nuclear-powered plant.
love how you framed your experience with words…moving forward in time, but really backward in so many other ways…
absolutely love the sunflower field… i happened to see a few when driving across bulgaria… a beautiful site indeed…and a great image.
keep on, keeping on… stay adventurous, Craig
The sunflower field is such a memorable photo. You’ll certainly see diverse scenery on this journey – best wishes 🙂