Jul 18, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Loaded in the van in the morning we set out, Out first stop along the way will be for the entry checkpoint, no photos here, but they take your passports and check you in. this is where you receive your first radiation meter to monitor you. We never did get the results...
Jul 18, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Good morning all, today we wake up and get into a black van that will take us to Chernobyl, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in humanity. We will be spending 2 days in the area, visiting the city, power plant and the town of Chernobyl itself where we stayed in a...
Jul 18, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Not much to do today except chill and drop the wagon off for some work and the mechanics, now its not there due to being unreliable. This company redoes steering wheels in leather and I also need my clock spring replaced plus a few niggling bits. Mainly preventative...
Jul 18, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Now where were we, oh ya, its crazy hot out so lets go downstairs, like down down, 6m wide silos sunk into the ground 1 for the workers, 2 at a time and the other for the sleeping giant. The workers would take 48 hours shifts in the bunkers, just 2 at a time. And were...
Jul 18, 2022 | Asia, Featured
This is a 2 part blog, and I will start with our day, go into just the outside area around the bunker and then blog 2 will continue inside the bunker as there were way to many photos taken. We get up early as we have made plans and stop in town for brekky, we hit up...
Jul 17, 2022 | Asia, Featured
I have no idea what airplane it is, but it was cool so we stopped quickly to see it, this is the start to an exciting day. We visit the space museum, from the very start its cool, copies of sputnik on display, Asareh gets to meet wall-E and I am allow to touch stuff....
Jul 17, 2022 | Asia, Featured
I would be lying if I said we did not stop for another one of those croissants that are crazy unhealthy before leaving town. So I wont, we did, it was amazing. We did enjoy the morning lazily strolling around town and finally left around 11. With such a late start we...
Jul 17, 2022 | Asia, Featured
With the sounds of vehicles passing the car again we get out of bed, but of course we never leave camp without coffee and a chill. Golden rules guys. With the car packed we head north, our goal today is to reach Lviv. We have a nice Airbnb booked in the heart...
Jul 15, 2022 | Asia, Featured
When will it end? We leave Ivano-Frankivsk at a decent hour, and all fresh from the hotel we stayed in. Our goal today, find a way through the mountains to a nice waterfall to camp at. We motor south enjoy the cool air, it’s a slightly overcast day but that is fine,...
Jul 12, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Waking up early we are read to head to Ivano-Frankivsk but first we must stop at a castle for a look around, not more than 20kms from camp we pull into a small town called Khotyn where there is a full on castle/fort in an area with a stunning church next to a lake....
Jul 11, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Double day bonus blog After surviving the night near the old facility we head further west with our goal of arriving at a camp site called База отдыха but first we swing through a small town by chance as we see a heap of statues on the side of the road, this takes us...
Jul 11, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Waking up to green green grass we have a nice little breakfast before heading out, although the tent is still slightly wet during pack up, we are sure we will camp before dark and it will dry today. We have a slow day planned looking for our next camp, We cover...
Jun 20, 2022 | Asia, Featured
And show up tomorrow night in a major storm with sideways rain please.. But today we pack up and leave Odessa and we have no real destination in mind, we are just following the road west. We have a late start as we are feeling slightly hung over and still need to do a...
Jun 1, 2022 | Asia, Featured
I’d say its not normal but I would be lying, we normally cover some serious ground in towns on foot, although not as bad when I took Sean on a 10km tiki tour that led to an apartment block across town instead of an old fort… oops. Wonder if it works? Leaving the hotel...
May 17, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Its thrusday night, we have not received a call for work… Chernobyl scrolls across the screen on the tv for shows to watch. “Hey wanna go check out Ukraine?” Night 1 stop over Anyways, we have now booked a ferry for the wagon and I am off and running to get all packed...
May 17, 2022 | Asia, Featured
After leaving Australia at 265k we finally ticked over the 300k mark in Turkey. The car has been running great although does require your standard maintenance that is performed before most trips as you would expect, as the roads we normally try to drive add a...
Mar 3, 2022 | Asia, Featured
After the D915 drive I figured it was time to see how wild of roads I could find. I guess for this blog I will just let the photos do the talking, I winded my way through about 75kms worth of crazy switch backs, loose rock slopes, thick fog and walked away okay....
Mar 2, 2022 | Asia, Featured
The call came, the dreaded call… “Hello, Asareh, your apartment smells like dead fish like the fridge has quit” Ahhh man, we quickly book a flight as we hadn’t left a key with anyone back in Antalya and Asareh will be on her way home in no time at all. Luckily at the...
Mar 1, 2022 | Asia, Featured
The tent is pooling some water this morning so my wake up call is brutal and quick. But a coffee makes all okay. We have 1 thing to do today and this is to drive the D915. So we hammer straight to Bayburt for a refuel and head north. The road starts very easy and is...
Mar 1, 2022 | Asia, Featured
We wake up to a stunning view on the edge of the cliff after a peaceful night. We wash up in the spring and head straight back into tunnels, I figure it almost works out to be 30kms worth of tunnels overall but broken up into pieces. Heading out we travel past a few...
