Today We Bought A Cow

About the Book

In August 2008, two vehicles and 4 people, shipped themselves from Sydney, Australia, to the far east of Russia, Vladivostok to be precise and then drove to London. Once there, 2 of the 4 drove back. On the way they experienced extraordinary adventures; hilarious, dramatic, disastrous, dangerous and miraculous. These included, visa disasters, police run ins, getting lost, running out of diesel, camping, managing disastrous break downs, meeting the locals, and buying a cow. They also met the fabled takhi, barely escaped imprisonment, nearly asphyxiated themselves in a ger, endured nightly visitations of curious locals, bought black market diesel, drove through deep mud, deep sand, over frozen rivers, through sand storms, endured unspeakable latrines and bought a Bankhar puppy. At the end of their trek they’d covered 40,000 kilometres, used 4,500 litres of diesel, and camped out in Russia, the Ukraine and Mongolia for a total of 36 nights, over a combined period of 4 months.

About the Author

Jan was born in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand in 1950 but moved permanently to Australia in 1992. With husband, Viv, they live in a fairly remote location, in a house they built on the side of a cliff with boat access only, on the banks of the beautiful Hawkesbury River, some 50 kilometres north of Sydney. She has been writing for many years for various publications around the globe. A keen traveller and explorer, she likes nothing better than to disappear, with Viv, into the great wilderness places in the world. She has three adult children who are long suffering and forgiving of her constant requirements for them to read and comment on what she writes, and Tammy, a beloved maltese dachsund cross dog, who is just long suffering.