We are away!

Ok. It's taken us three days to get ready to hit the road. We are pretty happy with that. Today Al and myself did a bit of sightseeing around Ulan Bataar, bought a English/Mongolian dictionary to go with our phrase book, sent some postcards and hit the black market to source some final bits and bobs for the bikes. I even managed to successfully use some of the language in sentance form...and they understood..ALRIGHT! We are both pretty exhausted from organising so much in the last couple of days and i'm really ready to hear silence in the more remote areas. Tomorrow we head off for Khakorum, the old Mongolian capital, which is about 360km east of Ulan Bataar. We will probably do this in a couple of days. After that we will ride onto Tsetserleg and then will continue on to Tsaagan Nuur (Lake) which is supposed to be one of the most pretty lakes in the country. We will probably camp there a couple of nights. Not sure how often we will hit the net from here but we will try. We have to be back in Ulan Bataar for the 1000km service anyway. The place we are staying is just full of bikers at the moment...and we have the weeniest girly men bikes of them all! Tomorrow i will wear my toughest dress on departure to show them bastards! >Matt