After driving 600 km away from Krasnojarsk we crossed a river of Angara and finally started riding the winter road. 1000 km of "zemnyk" was full of white beauty, wild nature, cold nights and a couple of more truck failures.
We met Oleg, a friend of Zilvinas in Krasnojarsk and he joined us together with his buddy Aleksandr. Now it's 5 of us traveling through cold taiga and experiencing peculiarities of "zemnyk".
On the way to Bogucianai we stopped by Oleg's relatives and were warmly welcomed in their house. They live in the area, where lots of lithuanian relatives are left after exile.
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As we're going up North, our adventures continues. "Moderna", the company that prepared our truck for the trip, left us a lot of unpleasant surprises. Therefore, Giedrius and Zilvinas had not only to become a long-distance drivers but also resourceful mechanics. They were going all over the truck, diving in the fuel and looking for the ways to fix the bugs almost every day.
After the flat tire was fixed the marathon of other failures continued. First of all the heaters of fuel pipes burned them and the fuel started to run through the holes under the truck. Giedrius and Zilvinas were taking a fuel...
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After a four-day-long check at the Latvia-Russia border, a bunch of procedures and this X-ray, it's clare that our Ladybug Tatra is all healthy, has no pneumonia, neither any broken bones and is prepared to survive the severe cold of Siberia. So we're hitting the road again and passed Moscow today.
But new challenges were waiting for us every day. First stop - flat tire. We gave it away for two guys, who brought it back to life in one hour. Just about the right amount of time to take a shower behind the garage.
We spent the next night stuck in the snow. As the fog was beautifully playing...
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