Yes, Per Gunnar Lundmark is done it again, from Sweden to Mongolia in 31 days.
I & two of my customers sat around the campfire, late one evening, along one of Stalin’s many tank roads and discussed other exotic venues.
After a long day in the saddle around Murmansk, talk inevitably turned to other exotic targets. Dakar, says one of them, the other counters with Cape Town. After a short silence, the first participant says dreamily, his eyes towards southwest: ”Imagine having a coffee in Ulan-Bator!"
I myself had only a vague idea of where it was, but felt there was something magic about the place. When the long Polar night gets at you, you turn creative and immerse yourself in maps. The rest is history.
Some nice reading here:
http://www.pgdakar.com/en/farawayistan/index.html
I & two of my customers sat around the campfire, late one evening, along one of Stalin’s many tank roads and discussed other exotic venues.
After a long day in the saddle around Murmansk, talk inevitably turned to other exotic targets. Dakar, says one of them, the other counters with Cape Town. After a short silence, the first participant says dreamily, his eyes towards southwest: ”Imagine having a coffee in Ulan-Bator!"
I myself had only a vague idea of where it was, but felt there was something magic about the place. When the long Polar night gets at you, you turn creative and immerse yourself in maps. The rest is history.
Some nice reading here:
http://www.pgdakar.com/en/farawayistan/index.html
