May 27th: Gobi to the Great Sea Road

We started our morning wet and cold. Covered in sand that had began to turn to mud and in a panic to get our camping gear inside the dry car as quickly as

May 26th: Dunhuang to Gobi

Today was our toughest day yet! We slogged through 300km of rough off-road, most of it completely off course. We took a wrong left turn and went down 100km of dirt road and

May 25th: Rest day in Dunhuang

Today was our rest day. We started the day with a decision to reorganize the car and clean some of the dust we’d accumlated over the Gobi. I went downtown to look

May 24th: Jiayuguan to Dunhuang

We left Jiyauguan in the direction of the mountain range we could see on the south side the previous day. It’s strange in China that the plains seem to come right up

May 23rd: Tengger to Jiayuguan

We awoke today looking forward to the hotel later that night. Two days of camping in sand and driving in the heat makes dusty men. Unfortunately there was an accident with one of