I am sure all of you are pretty sick of Steve and I telling you how crazy, bad, rough, or whatever negative adjective you choose, some of the roads are that we have encountered on the expedition. There are obviously plenty of other things to write about so this will be the last one for a while, although I am sure the roads will yield plenty of more interesting stories in the future.
Overall, both the Sequoia and the Tundra have held up extremely well and we have actually been able to make really good time compared to our own estimates and those of locals in the know given what we were told to expect. However, from time to time, things to tend to break and that is the nature of the beast. The funny thing is, when one problem pops up, it typically leads to the identification of another. For the last several weeks, we have been living with a slow leak in the rear driver’s side tire of Little Pepe. In order to give our portable air compressor a break from having to fill up the tire every 4 or 5 days, I finally got around to getting the leak fixed here in Ulaanbaatar.
When the guy fixing the tire was removing the wheel from the car, he not
