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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