Horizons Unlimited - The HUBB - Moscow to Ulanbaatar, July

This is more or less a duplicate of the message I just posted on Kim's thread.

My husband (Roynie) and I were due to ride from Inagh (in the West of Ireland) to China. We left on 26th April, but I had a really innocuous accident on a gravel road, just inside the Russian border, and broke my left fibula on 4th May.

Roynie is carrying on and is now in Almaty, due join up with GlobeBusters' Ace to Ace Expedition next week in Kyrgyzstan to ride to Beijing, while I am 'resting' at home with my elderly mother in the Isle of Wight!

Luckily I persuaded the UK fracture clinic doc not to replace the temporary half-plaster that was put on in Russia, so they gave me an orthopaedic boot instead. My leg is now almost completely healed and I am walking without crutches. However, I still need to go back and collect my bike next month, so the plan now is to ride east from Moscow to Ulanbaatar and meet Roynie for the ride home.

Ideally, I need to be in Ulanbaatar on 23rd July. I'll fly to Moscow at the end of the first week of July and aim to leave around 6th. I appreciate that 6,000km or so can be covered a great deal more quickly but, due to my recent injury, I'm deliberately taking things easy and may stay more than one night at some cities on route.

I know there are always folk travelling the Trans-Siberia Hwy. But it's over 6,000km, so if anyone's dates roughly coincide with mine, I'd be glad of the company. bier

NB if you would like to follow us on Facebook, I'd be grateful if you don't mention this plan as, following the previous disappointment, Roynie and I are hoping to keep this one up our sleeves as a surprise for our supporters at home ...