19th June 2012
Well just over 4 weeks to go, all visas (apart from Chinese) done. Car still at the garage with Bernie, getting rather excited!
View ArticleIntroduction: E.M.A.N. Expedition (England-Magadan-Anchorage-New York)
E.M.A.N. Expedition (England-Magadan-Anchorage-New York) TRACK US: http://alturl.com/zfzoz WHO WE ARE: Five of us, Greg (Polish), Bob (English), John (English), Warren (Kiwi) & Will (Welsh), in...
View ArticleThe EMAN Expedition begins! 7 weeks to Magadan, Russia!
After all the planning and hard work we finally set off from Great Rissington, Gloucestershire at 7pm July 20th 2012. Leg 1; 9000+ miles to Magadan on the Russian Pacific coast! Greg, Bob and Will are...
View ArticleEngland to Poland
Finally at 7pm July 20th 2012 the EMAN team departed Great Rissington, England in two vehicles carrying 5 people on an adventure across Europe an Asia. As we had all travelled western Europe many...
View ArticleUkrainian Border
On the way to the border Warrens truck overheated again, we did the same thing refilled the water and it started fine, we decided to try and reach the order anyway as we were now in nomans land. We...
View ArticleArrived in Moscow
We have arrived safely in Moscow! Warren with the help of Jon should be heading through Europe at the moment in the replacement vehicle. We will stay in Moscow until he arrives on Wednesday if all goes...
View ArticleLeaving Moscow with Warren!
Just a quick post while we have wifi in mcdonalds! Warren has finally met back up with us! So the team is reunited! He was back in England getting another truck on sunday and made it to Moscow...
View ArticleCrossed the Volga River!
Crossed the Volga River (Europe's biggest) we are a few 100kms east of Moscow 100kms from Kazan. I did post a long detailed blog but the internet here is terrible so it didnt upload. We are all doing...
View ArticleCrossing the Volga River
After staying in a slightly more upmarket motel compared to previous nights we had a good sleep and set off at 8am this morning. Having spent hours trying to leave Moscow in the traffic we didn't...
View ArticleCrossing the Ural Mountains into Asia
After 4000 miles we have crossed the Urals Mountains into Asia! 100km from Chelabinsk, Kazakhstan tomorrow! We are all doing great! Team EMAN
View ArticleAstana, Kazakhstan
We are safe, well, washed and fed! blog to come tomorrow. Track us - http://alturl.com/zfzoz Over the past few days were have been switching between camping and motels. The first site was in Russia...
View ArticleKrasnoyarsk, Russia (Leaving Kazakhstan crossing back into Russia)
TRACK US: http://alturl.com/zfzozVideo Link - Kazakhstan: http://youtube.be/fyETO1_i0jY Having left Astana we travelled along some equally terrible roads as the ones be entered on the day earlier. We...
View ArticleLake Baikal, Russia
All safe and well at the deepest lake in the world! Quick fact: The lake holds enough fresh water to supply the entire planet for 40 years! The internet is terrible here but I will try and upload a...
View ArticleLake Baikal, Russia
All safe and well at the deepest lake in the world! Quick fact: The lake holds enough fresh water to supply the entire planet for 40 years! The internet is terrible here but I will try and upload a...
View ArticleUlaanbaatar, Mongolia
All safe and well in the Mongolian capital we wrote a blog and posted it but it disappeared! We don't have got time to redo it!Basically;-Mongolian scenery is amazing!-We met a herd of camels!-We...
View ArticleChita, Russia
Sorry all the posts are getting shorter and shorter as time and internet avalibility diminish! Dont worry though everything is fine and you can still follow our recent progress on our tracker page...
View ArticleIn Yakutsk
All safe and well in Yakutsk! We've been camping and driving dirt roads all week! Road of bones for a week before we reach Magadan! No time to write anymore sorry!
View ArticleLeg 2 Summer 2013 (Iceland *extended connection*) Anchorage, Alaska to New...
Follow our satellite tracker on this link(location updated daily)http://alturl.com/zfzoz So it’s been 10 months since we finished the first leg of our journey in the Russia Coastal town of Magadan....
View ArticleAnchorage, Alaska
After a 7 hour flight we arrived safely in Anchorage Alaska's capital last night! The skies were clear so we had some fantastic views of the ice sheets and glaciers of northern Greenland, Canada and...
View ArticleAnchorage, Brooks Lodge Katmai (bears), Cordova, Seward
Tue.22nd. We didn’t need alarms to get us up, as our body clocks already told us it was time to get up, for our early check in at the airport, ready for our >1hr flight S.W. to King Salmon &...
View ArticleSeward, Kenai Fjord National Park
Sat. 27th. Another unbelievable day, in that we spent a really sunny day on a boat, going up the fjords, looking at glaciers and whale watching.We weren’t disappointed, in that we saw sea otters, Dally...
View ArticleDenali National Park
Tue. 30th. Whilst the others took a 6 hr. trip through Denali National Park –1,000,000 acres, to the base of Mt Mckinley (America’s highest mountain – c.21,500ft), where they camped overnight, thriving...
View ArticleFairbanks
Wed.31st. We all got up early, some to catch the early bus from the heart of Denali at Mt. Mckinley to come back to base, a We all met up and continued our journey North to Fairbanks, where we stayed...
View ArticleDawson City, Yukon Territory Canada
A really interesting day! Yesterday we drove all day to SE from Fairbanks and beyond, getting further & further into the mountains, passing through tiny, but spread out outposts. We very nearly ran...
View ArticleWhitehorse, Canada
Sat. 3,8,13. Greg took the campers for a midnight drive, ‘off piste’, when it was still light here. The temperature was still a warm 22 C at that time of night, but dramatically dropped to around...
View ArticleProphet River
we spent last night in a bit of a ‘dive’ motel last night, where the mosquitoes were horrendous and that was it, - there was not a lot else to be positive about! We were all longing for a shower, but...
View ArticleGrande Prairie, Alberta Canada
We’ve now got back into civilised country in Alberta and are all staying at a very luxurious B&B on the outskirts of Grande Prairie – a medium sized town in the north of the Province. Tony, as...
View ArticleLilloet to Vancouver
*A few missing entries will be added after we resolve some technical issues with the blog.* blog for fri 9.8.13 Having stayed in a wasp infested site, and poor John got the wrath of most of the little...
View ArticleVancouver Island, Ucluelet and Victoria
Sat.10.8.13 & Sun.11.8.13 We left the City the next morning and took the ferry over to the Island (1 1/2 hrs) and drove over to the West coast, stopping en route for an idyllic lakeside picnic...
View ArticleCanada to Yellowstone National Park
Blog for Mon-Wed 12-14 Aug 2013============================================================Mon 12thAfter a quick foray into Victoria, the night before - the general concensus was that the town was nice...
View ArticleSt. Louis
Sorry for the delay! On saturday John and Tony flew back from Denver leaving just greg and myself to carry the baton on to New York. From Denver we crossed the prairies heading to St. Louis where Greg...
View ArticleWashington DC via Lexington, Kentucky
Having spent a wonderful few days staying with Wojciech which included daily trips down the Missouri river in his speed boat we departed St. Louis. Our next stop was Lexington, Kentucky America's home...
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