June 27, 2016


Latest 3,966 km for 103 road days.
There has not been a lot to report these last couple of days, except it's starting to get hot, very hot and my tent is like an oven by 8:30, yes it would make sense to start earlier. On the road it's around 27C, and I am managing well, am glad I got my haircut!
Friday 44, Saturday 48 and today, Sunday 41km. A lot of nice people stopped to say hi on the road today.
This state, Tatarstan is the 4th richest in all of Russia and has the worst roads so far!
Islam is the dominant religion, but you would never know as few women wear headscarfs and mosques are low key. Christians and Muslims live, socialise side by side in total harmony. They are proud of the successful integration of all faiths. Not really sure how the the presumptive Donald Duck in America would be able to determine who is who as almost all have non typical Islamic names. It is great to see people on both sides of the divide form friendships and relationships.

This is my location tonight. I am at km 1,148 east of Moscow. Tomorrow on the four month anniversary I walk my 4,000th km.
Many thanks to Dolores Doyle for her very generous sponsorship of a couple of weeks walking in Russia :) I am totally unsponsored, so sponsors for a day, hotel night etc are always welcome. Please see the PayPal link, you don't need a PayPal account, just a bank card, thank you!