To Vladivostok................. THE END

Towns and cities in Russia do a great welcoming sign.   This was just outside one of our borsch and coffee places.  We were hoping for a good one at Vladivostok,  The daily rides were getting longer and the rain was getting more regular.

 We covered about 1500km in the last 2 days and Peter hadn't caught us.   It must have been tough for him doing it solo.  He'd said that he likes a long solo ride, but I know he was getting the same or perhaps more rain than us.

They've done major road works around Vlad, and of course they bypassed the old classic sign, so this had to do.  

Next day we tracked down Yuri from Link Ltd who will ship our bikes home.  It all happened pretty quick.  While waiting with Svetlana in his office, we asked where we could arrange for tickets to fly home.  "Next building"  So within an hour we had tickets to Sydney.  To fly direct to Melbourne would have been more than twice as expensive.    Later that arvo we had the bikes cleaned and Yuri transported them to his depot. 

All up, about 22,000km and complete in 2 days less than 3 months.. 25 April to July 22.  

Today is 24 July and we're trying to dry all our panniers and stuff so they can be fitted to the bikes.  

There are still many pics on my cameras and David's that I will put on the blog when I get home.

cheers, paul