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Today was a transit day with the most awesome country. We just follow tracks in the wilderness with the most incredible scenery. It is amazing travelling in this remoteness. The past 2 hellish days for wear and tear on the car, and our bodies, was worth it to be in this place. There are huge open valleys between low, rugged mountains. This trip has been really touch on all the cars, with another 4 being transported on trucks. It is really weird that we have just passed a mobile tower out here in the middle of this vast expanse.

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The roads got worse!!! We did 336 km which took 11 hours driving. Luckily we only rattled a few bolts loose and fortunately the springs held together. We became bogged once after we were forced into the gutter by a lunatic nomadic truck driver!

For the last few days the scenery has been the most amazing scenery I have ever seen.. We have climbed mountain passes 8,500 high. All the towns in Mongolia have beautiful coloured roofs – red and green… and the towns are tidy unlike the towns we say in UB. We can see the nomads packing up and moving out of the high country as winter approaches. As arduous as the driving has been the trip is absolutely amazing. I’d love to come back and do it a slower pace so I wasn’t so exhausted. We’re nursing the front springs for another couple of days and a new set is being flown in  for us to get in a couple of days.

We are holding on to the lead…grimly.

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We encountered the most horrendous roads. We stopped for fuel and realised we had BOTH the front springs broken. We strapped the front axle with truck axle straps and limped along for another 30km to camp.

In camp we worked well into the night fixing the springs. We turned one spring around and replaced one main leaf with the help from Charlie and Nellie Bishop in the other Vauxhall. We are so grateful for their support and help. We strapped them all together for our next day’s journey.