Ten years of travel stories, now as an endless card feed.
Just close your eyes, put the hoodie on your head, take the blue pill and imagine that you are in a 5 star hotel. It seemed like the only choice, sure we could have complained of our misfortunate, but...
Chai masala! Chai masala! This must be at least the 3rd time this morning that I heard someone selling tea in the subway car. Either the Indian folks have no manners, get up really early or I am not e...
Mumbai (aka Bombay), India (GPS: 18.936134, 72.837918) The "Superpowers of the Future", back in the 90's it seemed that both China and India will come out swinging in a global economy and take over th...
Here is the main difference between backpacking and overlanding, schedule. With the car we pretty much had complete freedom of movement, WE decided how long we wanted to stay in each place and what ti...
We thought that we spent enough time in Moscow, come on guys it was almost 6 weeks there. If the weather was nicer maybe our stay would have been much more pleasant, but the fall in Moscow is short, s...
Our stay in Moscow is getting unexpectedly longer and longer, there are reasons for it, but I am not at liberty to discusses them at the moment. Let's just say that some interesting things are up ahead...
Finally, we are here - Moscow. Actually it's my great-grandma's summer home just outside the city...but after coming this far...this is Moscow to us. All my cousins decided to surprise us by showing up...
I might have overdone it with the driving in a single day from Miass to Kazan. The distance wise it is about 470-500 miles, basically something that I do once in a while when driving to see my parents...
We learned a trick to passing the border with minimal hassle. During a usual border process the passengers go through the immigration and then wait in a separate area while the customs officials inspe...
The last post felt like a final point, it even included a summary for Kyrgyzstan. Chronologically speaking, we still had to get from Pamir back to Osh, then Bishkek and then onto Kazakhstan. Although...
Landcruiser mended up to the standards of Central Asia, we set off towards the town of Osh. Knowing that we wouldn't make it there in one day, we took our sweet time getting ready in the morning...che...
You find yourself here again...and reading about Kyrgyzstan. A few things are running through your mind: is Ivan running out of material to talk about? And is there nothing better to read on the inter...
