North, south, east, west?

Because of current developments in regions along our route we did recheck the feasibility of our plans. Especially in Ukraine and in Tajikistan there are some troubling developments.

We did stick our heads together to come up with a genious plan: Just drive around those "dangerous" regions :-)

We will adapt our route as follows:

1. The eastern part of Ukraine is to be avoided, so after reaching Odessa we will head north to Kyiv, and cross over into Russia there. Sounds safer to us.
2. According to caravanistan.com the border next to Samarqand is closed for foreigners, so we will go a little bit further south and will cross over near Dushanabe.

These changes should not affect our timetable, and otherwise will not cost any fun along the route.

Along with working on our route we came up with another decision: How we will navigate around one third of the earth! We will leave our navigation devices at home, and will only use our newly arrived paper-based maps to travel east! And the codriver will never be bored again ;-)

Here are some pictures of our route-genious map-moments:

The Baatarnators plan their Route