We are into the swing of it, get up at 06:00, on the road by 07:00. Do 200-250 miles before lunch and then another 100-200 afterwards. The 400 miles a day are ticking along nicely. Or at least they were until we received a RoRo update tonight.The ship has been delayed, initially that was good news. We could slow down However he next email brought the bad news that it won't sail until June 4th. This means that It is not due to arrive in Vladivostok until the June 15th. Ten days after we land there.

This leaves us with two weeks before we need to deliver the bikes to the port. After being all geared with the headlong dash to Seattle the rug has been pulled out from under us. We have now started to consider our options.

As the ship is not going to leave until after we fly out, this is bad because if the bikes fail to be on it we will be in Asia. And with losing a week in Russia we will have to reconsider our route home, any more delay and getting Mike back to work on time will become almost impossible.

Alternatively we could look once more into the (extremely) expensive air freight option. This may also mean we will have to ditch our flight from Seoul to Vladivostok and take a ferry to Russia with them.

Mean while we can consider what to do with our time now, watching the weather channel. :-

Go North ? That seems to be all snow and cold.

Stay in between ? All flat and boring.

Cross the rockies, still snowing, and try the Pacific ? Maybe.