{"id":3181,"date":"2010-08-31T03:07:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T02:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2017-07-22T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T13:33:34","slug":"day-44-45-the-road-to-ub-bulgan-to-ulaanbaatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/expedition-updates\/day-44-45-the-road-to-ub-bulgan-to-ulaanbaatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 44 &#8211; 45: The road to UB. Bulgan to Ulaanbaatar."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High Point: There is certainly a couple here; the monastery at Amarbayasgalant Khiid (pictures attached) finally reaching Tarmac roads (and then realising they were still wet and Martha was doing a great job of churning them up) and a splendid game of night cricket outside our gir. I think the score is now 3 &#8211; 1 to me on the stage 2 cricket fest.<br \/>\nThe feeling in the cab was one of excitement, and banter was most definitely plentiful. To finally have UB in our sights was a great feeling, and although not technically the end of stage 2, with both Ben and Dave leaving us there, there was a feeling of accomplishment and achievement. <!--more-->Low Point: For me this was actually reaching UB and knowing that we were soon going to be saying goodbye to the golden girls.<\/p>\n<p>Author&#8217;s comments: Now I refuse to get sentimental about this, but having spent 4 solid weeks with a great group of lads it was always going to be sad to say goodbye. We did it in true British style over a curry and a couple of cold Tigers.<br \/>\nI firmly believe that the strength of this expedition is the plethora of characters Steve has managed to cobble together through his various friendship groups. Nevertheless I think we all felt a bit melancholic saying goodbye. However, the one thing one can&#8217;t do on this journey is look back, and with Ailsa joining us in UB and the road to Beijing in front of us, it&#8217;s time to hit the road!<\/p>\n<p>Ross<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.virginmoneygiving.com\/fundraiser-web\/fundraiser\/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=FollowThatFireEngine\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"virgin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/virgin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a>If you like our blogs, please donate to our wonerful charity. Remember, all monies go to the charities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FTFE is 100% self funded by the crew.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/virgin.png\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[g3181]\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Photos of the day<\/p>\n<p>[flickr album=72157624756019383 num=30 size=Square]<\/p>\n<p>[flickr album=72157624756046799 num=30 size=Square]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Point: There is certainly a couple here; the monastery at Amarbayasgalant Khiid (pictures attached) finally reaching Tarmac roads (and then realising they were still wet and Martha was doing a great job of churning them up) and a splendid game of night cricket outside our gir. I think the score is now 3 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expedition-updates","category-moscow-to-beijing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3185,"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}