Korea, Russia, Stans To East Europe (page 9)

Mangsang-Dong To Donghae To Vladivostok

15 km from my accommodation to the Ferry, a dordle around the coast on what started as a cloudy cooler day considering last night was an epic thunderstorm and heavy rain it was nice to have the cooler atmosphere which means I wasn't already sticking to my jacket by the time I turned the key on LOL.

Given I had to be at the Ferry Passenger Terminal by 9.00 am I had some time up my sleeve having prepacked 45 while she was under cover inside, warm and dry.

Now for a page of petrolheadism by chance, apologies to the humans who may not understand a lot of this post.

On arrival at the Passenger Ferry Terminal I was already 5^th in line having been beaten by the Koreans, riding through the gates and into the yard I was met with 5 MASSIVE smiles, huge thumbs up and the welcoming brotherhood of international motoheadism travellers thicker than home made stodgie soup, it was awesome.

These guys, wow, CRF250, CG11O (1800s), V strom single, a scooter and a Ninja, in the same order down the page for you humans.

These guys were funny, fun and their attitude outstanding, it was a find of treasure for me to meet them, and Sloth Shin (ninja) in the front of the picture above with the red/white cap could speak a little English so he took it upon himself to help, right from when we met, through customs, on the boat to out of the Port in Vladivostok when we all waved goodbye, legend and good bastid.

Gezz, could not have been a more welcoming and nice surprise, anyway, customs was easy although EVERYTHING was screened, pulled apart and examined and the customs girl then asked "do you have any weapons like guns or explosives" (seriously) …I just smiled and larfed, not known for their sense of humour (customs) she broke out with a smile as she pretty well knew she had asked what would seem to be a moot question after stripping all luggage and finding every corner and we were good.

Loading onto the boat the motos had priority so up we went…and inside, a Harley with a guitar, DRZ400, a Monkey bike (the Monkey bike heading for Africa), an XT660, KTM 1190 Adventure a Landcruiser overlander and some Dakar Racing trucks.

It was a total petrolhead and Dieselstack session with not a normal civi car in sight, kinda unusual and we were all surprised needless to say the cameras went mad and the Korean shipping workers were shooing me away from the Dakar trucks, I managed to risk my life and rat off a coupla pics tho.