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It was the indie/rock sounds of 90’s surf band RootJoose which was the final album playing on the Truck-o-Luck’s stereo, as its wheels rolled onto the streets of Ulaan Baatar, heralding the end of its epic 7’500 mile dash across the globe, 37 days, across 7 countries and 8 time zones and they were there…  read more »

After an epic 52 hour wait at the Mongolian border for some vital Truck-o-luck paper work, we were back on the road late in the day following a convoy of trucks to our purposed destination for the evening Bayan-Olgii. After a few false starts, including a tow out of a snow drift 30 meters out of the border gates, we were trucking with the big boys...

Taking the advice of a border customs official, we followed the convoy off the high road and on to the low road. The low road although a rutted and in some places snow filled, was nothing the Truck-o-luck and its slightly musty crew hadn't seen before and for a comfortable 40km we kept pace with convoy, as our experienced leader picked the best route through the dramatic mountain scenery.  read more »

Day 25: MONGOLIA, ALMOST... (Tsagaanuur MGL) After a night of armwrestling, nips of vodka and broken english in the home of the 2 Altai men it towed home lastnight (who it transpired were champion boxers and armwrestlers in the local area), a very cold truck-o-luck smoked out of russia 2ward the mongolian border. Unfortunately on reaching its finally frontier, the TOL is missing some paperwork... not 2 worry its on its way from UB tomorrow, and Team Maybe Tomorrow will be off in morning! Currently haul up in a very cosy, somewhat basic Hotel learning there is such thing as being 2 warm, mustn't grumble though after an hour this morning of digging the TOL out of a snow drift... Goodnight from a slightly barmy, snow capped 5000ft.J