Somehow the fact that we were going to Siberia esaped me. Really. It’s beautiful! Farms, stands of birch trees and the greshest air imagineable. Although Kazakhstan was a great experience, we were glad to finally get out of the heat and dust. As we made our way north out of Kazakhstan from Almaty to Karaganda things became greener and we definitely in Steppe. Not a tree insight. Or bush. Superb circumstances for roadside pit stops :-D.
Our last two nights in Kaz we slept in the car. It was cold and drizzly and well, you can imagine. Both days though we got early starts trying to book to Russia. From here it’s two days to the Mongolian border.
As the weather grew cooler the last two days we have been able to read in the car and listen to music and talk even! (Because the windows are up and our brains aren’t getting sucked out by the wind.)
We are apprehensive about our crossing of Mongolia. It’s going to be hard. Our car has very little suspension travel and bottoms out at the slightest bump – maybe because the front shocks are leaking, LOL. We’ve heard it’s a sea of mud there because of recent rains. I am on round two of antibiotics and not completely varsity but we are READY! Last we saw 108 teams had made it to the finish line and many, many teams were seen stranded in the mud. Out of 300+ teams that started that means two thirds haven’t made it by the second finish party. The o
