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Today is the final day of our little adventure. The thousands kilometers of snow, cold and struggle to keep our truck, no, our moving home, is behind us. But still, let me tell you something.


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I'm typing this log in a truck's cabin while we crossing the border of Irkutsk oblast.


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Okay, I must admit it, saving people from snow became our hobby. We saved the third car today, some nissan was thrown out of the road near Kemerovo. The driver was so thankful for our help, so he just open a trunk of his car, took from there huge sack of ... wheat flour and threw it inside our truck. And refused to take it back by all means. "You ( Read more... )

Our internal clock set for gmt+4 (aka Moscow time). And while we travel futher east, we shift our driving time more and more for the night one. We already crossed GMT+6 (Ural) and now we travel in western Siberia's GMT+7 (Novosibirsk) time zone. Combine all this time shifts with midwinter shot daylight duration and you will get a complete mess with ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a hard day, so I'm writing this report today, a bit late. It all began at around 4AM GMT+6, when we had our road accident. As we found out later the fuel from our last refuel was, well, let's say "homemade", it happens in this oil-rich Tyumen Oblast. And the engine fuel line, fuel filters and fuel line all went clogged mid-run. And ( Read more... )

Yesterday night was cold, the temperature outside dropped below -26 when we went to sleep, and even through our gas heater was turned on maximum setting, frankly it wasn't a comfort sleep. At morning we doesn't want to stress the engine by the cold start and tried to heat it by petroleum wielding torch, to no avail (our torch was a bit broken and ( Read more... )

It looks as if we riding in the heart of winter. Through we riding east, not north, the weather became colder every day. So today was a day of white silence (no pun intended, if our Whitey is silent, just check his pulse, he could be dead ( Read more... )

Okay, today's log is a short one. We spend most of the day getting necessary supplies (yes, like sleep-bags), spare parts and making repairs and upgrades for the cold weather. So, not so much adventuring, more of a hard work in not-so-pleasant environment ( Read more... )