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January 27, 2009: Strip my trailer „Does everything has to upset me?“ That were my thoughts when the „Sesaria” hotel (written in German as I understand it in Russian) all of a sudden wanted to charge us with a doubled price. I hate stuff like that. Before our departure, we stayed in the Polar...

January 26, 2009: Modification/preparation of the vehicles Our job right now is the maximum weight reduction and the preparation as well as modification for one of the most challenging off road tracks in the world with parts which have never been managed before. We checked everything, really...

January 23-25, 2009: Back on track It was a troublesome start - hopefully now everything bad is covered right from the beginning. First of all we had to pay almost 1500 € for our excess luggage at Frankfurt Airport, which should not be the case. Furthermore we became problems with the...

Second part of the expedition Right now the expedition team is still in Germany. The designated departure date is Friday, January 23, 2009. Due to the preparations of the return to Russia and the upcoming most difficult part of the entire project, the team needed some extra time in Germany and...

December 21-27, 2008: Jakutsk - Magadan How to build a rear axle differential on Christmas due to boredom I was still in Aldan on the 24st to repair the expedition vehicle F1 and drive it together with the trailer MJ46 to Jakutsk - which finally was successful (arrival 25st 1.00 a.m.). The...

December 15-21, 2008: Chita - Jakutsk XXL-section with obstacles Shortly after our departure from Ulan Ude, the outside conditions became even more difficult than in Mongolia: Temperatures of down to -52° Celsius were extremely straining for people, machinery and material. Furthermore, we were...

My 910s came with covers.

13.-15.12.2008: Ulan Ude – departure to Jakutsk With the Amazons to the lama-school A really hard decision had to be made today. Due to a contact of the German Embassy in Moscow – who we would like to thank again for his dedication – we met Slava Bulatow in Ulan Ude. He had different things...

December 06-08, 2008: Gobi Altay - Arvaiheer - Harhorin - Nationalpark Hustai On our track from Gobi Altay to Bayanhongor we were faced with every imaginable surface like: a hard humpy earth road, difficult-to-drive sand tracks with heavy potholes, snow tracks, up- and downhill on brown grass...

December 03-05, 2008: Hovd - Gobi - Altay Along the desert towards the hydroelectric power plant Matthias already awoke with the feeling that the vehicles had to be checked after 200 kilometers of humpy earth road. Intuitional driving: The feeling was correct! Both exhaust systems had to be...

December 02 Olgy - Hovd Tract leg with mountain action Different strokes for different folks: Our day started with an entirely unlikely breakfast. We ate shish kebab and soup in a Turkish restaurant. - Who knows when we will get such a square meal for the next time? Meanwhile a person with...

November 29-December 01, 2008: Altay - Mongolian Border - Olgy Mountains, snow and another border! In the afternoon we hit the road from Novosibirsk towards the Mongolian border with the completely re-packed and frost-resistant vehicles and two new expedition participants – in Novosibirsk...

November 25-28, 2008: Novosibirsk Busy in Siberia’s capital Right from the start we scheduled a stop in Novosibirsk for several days. The reason for that: Here, our vehicles and trailers were supposed to be modified for the cold. Spikes have been attached to all tires – on vehicles and...

November 24, 2008: Omsk The sun of Omsk We were not mistaken when leaving Tyumen: The sun that came shining from Omsk was a good sign. Right in the morning Joachim and the Russian journalists made several stops to take photos. It was not only that the light of the rising sun was illuminating...

November 20-22, 2008: Yekaterinburg - Tyumen Two cities – two successful days Shortly after our overnight arrival in Yekaterinburg, the first light snow fall started: The next morning when we looked out of the windows, a thin snow layer covered our vehicles. Unfortunately the temperature was...

November 14-17, 2008: Moscow to Kazan Unsuspicious driving “We should not drive a fourth round if we do not want to seem suspicious“, is how we reproved ourself by the third turn around the Kremlin and the Basilica in the center of Moscow. So we exercised ourselves in unsuspicious driving and...

November 11-13, 2008: Minsk - Belarus/Russian border - Moscow Border crossing asleep We had a welcoming start on Tuesday: still feeling the long-lasting border crossing Poland/Belarus, we were all happy to stay the night in Minsk directly in the hotel of the IBB where the press conference took...

November 08-10, 2008: From Berlin to the border of Belarus On Saturday we totally rearranged the loading of F1 and F2 at our accommodation in Berlin. Berthold Wolf, our partner, whose rooftop boxes were at good services for us while loading the material, was also present. What would Matthias...

November 05-08, 2008: Berlin The expedition quintet moved into a small but lovely summer residence at the Spandauer area in Berlin. Since we arrived late there was only one last task, to arrange a “wake up call” from the colleagues in Limburg and to go to bed for a good night’s sleep. But...

October 29, 2008: Budapest “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you get”. We planned a seven-hour drive for today’s 400 kilometers. Due to the excellently developed highway towards Budapest we reached our goal already after half of the estimated time. The booked hotel was...