Nine months passed between deciding that Fromeward Bound was going to happen and finally leaving Tokyo. During that time I did a huge amount of researching and planning – reading blogs and forums, pouring over maps, etc. – and created quite a clear idea in my head of how I thought things would play out. […]
Monthly Archives: October 2016
Border Patrol (Night Two)
Setting Due to the road literally being honed from the mountain side with the river raging below; small picturesque villages have settled where the valley, on occasions, widens and flattens. As occasionally happens, dusk started to fall before we had found somewhere good to camp. And so it was we found ourselves having to stop, […]
Border Patrol (Night One)
Setting At the moment we are driving from Khorugh to Dushanbe in Tajikistan. The road follows the Panj River as it meanders between numerous mountains. On one side of the river is Afghanistan and on the other is Tajikistan. At times the river narrows as it flits through tight canons and you come so tantalisingly […]
Grand Design Containers
In the west it seems it’s all the rage at the moment to build houses from shipping containers. However, throughout all of Kyrgyzstan it’s old news and we have seen shipping containers being reused in all manner of creative ways.
Kyrgyzstan Photos Pt. 2
Kyrgyzstan Photos Pt. 1
Kyrgyzstan Reflections
#1 Shipping containers are recycled in all manner of new uses (see my separate blog post!) #2 There is a plethora of VW cars – Golf Mark 2, Passat, Jetta and lots of Audis from the same era too #3 Morrison shopping bags seem to be cropping up in quite a few of the smaller […]
Some Super Statistics
On October 16th it will be 100 days since we left our lovely little flat in Tokyo and hit the road. So we thought we would do some statistical analysis…… Total distance travelled: 16,862km (10,047miles) Highest elevation: 4655 metres (Ak Baital Pass, Tajikistan) Snow leopard sightings: a big fat 0 Nights in hotel rooms: 10 […]
Kazakhstan: Video
Better late than never, here’s the edit of the footage we shot in Kazakhstan. Apologies to the folk who are interested in seeing more of us as my videos seem to be going the other way and turning more and more into nature documentaries 😉 Enjoy!
Still droning on
Following on from my other piece about choosing our drone, here’s a more technical look into the finer details of using the drone day-to-day. Casual readers will find this monolithically uninteresting!