Take Me With You Podcast

(Ep. 127) Driving from the UK to Mongolia with Scott Gurian - Part 2

April 05, 2021 Ryan & Cheryl Season 3 Episode 23
Take Me With You Podcast
(Ep. 127) Driving from the UK to Mongolia with Scott Gurian - Part 2
Show Notes

We continue Scott’s story from his adventure on the Mongol Rally! 


  • Uzbekistan - Bukhara 
    • Got sick, so didn’t get to see much 
  • Tajikistan 
    • A very poor country 
    • Dushanbe 
    • Pamir Highway 
      • Mostly unpaved road that snakes through the mountains 
      • Right across the river from Afghanistan 
      • Stayed overnight at a random house/truck stop in the middle of nowhere 
  • Kyrgyzstan 
    • Still had issues with the head gasket  
    • Google re-routed them that changed 10-12 hour trip into a 2 day trip across unpaved, bad roads! 
    • Lots of wild horses everywhere 
  • Kazakhstan 
    • One of the largest countries in the world 
    • The longest, most boring drives across the steppe 
    • Almaty  
      • Had met a woman in Iran who is from Almaty and invited them to stay with her family 
      • They eat a lot of horse meat there 
      • Got to attend a Kazak wedding, including a drag performance 
    • Car breaks down in the middle of a marijana field 
  • Had to drive around China 
    • N through part of Russia, then into Mongolia 
  • Mongolia 
    • Lowest population density in the world 
    • Roads were sometimes just paths through fields or sand 
    • Had to cross rivers 
    • Got stuck and the bottom of a rocky ravine 
    • Friend contacts the American & British embassy in Ulaanbaatar 
    • Find a hut they can set up a tent inside...but then a local Mongol showed up...maybe it was his hut 
    • 2 teams from two towns were searching for them, but were having trouble finding them 
    • The rescue team almost ran out of gas because of how long they had been searching 
      • Then the second team found them from the other side 
    • One of the back tires was bowed at a 45 degree angle 


Wish You Were Here 

Cheryl: Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, CO 

Scott: Swimming with Sea Lions off the coast of Lima, Peru 

Ryan: Suzzallo Reading Room, UW, Seattle, WA 



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