Heading north. Riding north from Sortavala to Murmansk has been easy, enjoyable and really reply as we made our way passed many lakes and through the dense forests of western Russia. The road has been in surprisingly good condition as it has been completely rebuilt from St Petersburg all the way to Murmansk. [...]

North bound... Waking up to the sound of torrential rain beating off the hotel room window was far from what we had hoped to waken up to first thing in the morning. We decided to delay our start by an hour and a half in the hope that the rain would subside. Well, [...]

First full riding day in Russia. The ride from Vyborg, which is a great little city, to St. Petersburg was a fairly short day of only 180 miles. The ride itself was really pretty as we rode through forests and along the Gulf of Finland coast line with lunch at a wonderful hotel [...]