Archive | March 2013

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Leg stretching and gear testing

A friend of our’s has chased winter for years – bouncing between the northern and southern hemispheres to live in a near permenant of sub-sero temperatures for the better portion of a decade. [She’s a snowboard instructor, so if you are thinking this last sentence is a statement of insanity, it is actually grounded in reason.] […]

Diplomatic practices

This may be putting the cart before the horse, but it seems we now have all of our required visas! Actually that’s a lie, since at the time of posting we’re still waiting on our Chinese visas to be approved. However being someone that occasionally likes to leap before he looks, I wanted to share […]

Testing… testing… 1, 2 3?

A blatant use of the except tags in an email. I am hoping all of our vehicles this trip are in better shape than this one!

So many things crossed off the list!

Awesome week!!! We got a lot checked off the prep list: Mongolian visas acquired! Whoot Derek! Hotel in Beijing booked (Soluxe Sunshine Courtyard Hotel) Hotel in Vilnius booked (Dvaras Hotel) Invite to China asked for and received Research on booking for train from St Petersburg to Vilnius started On the issue of the last item, […]