OUTLAW KATE: UP TO NO GOOD* SINCE 1965

Attention South Africa and The Kingdom of Lesotho:  Ready or Not, Here I Come Hello, yes, it’s been awhile; not much, how about you?  I’m...

Race Day 5: Good morning, your fresh milk is served We were up and at ‘em by 5am the next morning, having been told by Charles to be at...

Mongol Vodka!! After our trying day enroute to HS13, getting a ride to the next horse station seemed like kind of an intermission in some...

Race Day 8: I set out with Lucy, Jess and Eveline for what was to be our second last day of riding. Even though we had expected 10 days...

originally posted by Katherine at 23rd August 2012 at 19:28 Epilogue: The most popular question at the finish line for a few days after...

Race Day 4: The second half of the leg we had begun the night before flashed by in a hurry. We had rested, our horses were good to go,...

Race Day 7: Leaving beautiful HS15 The "facilities" - pretty basic but the view was fantastic! I was excited to be back in the saddle...

Race Day 9: Rounding up the new-fashioned way We were up bright and early – only a bit more than two legs to go! We were on our horses by...

Race Day 3: Day 3 saw the few of us at the back hauling butt to move up the line. At most stations we requested horses that would keep...

Race Day 6: We were ready to go bright and early, sad to leave the lake setting, but looking forward to putting in a good day. We were on...

Race Day 2: Up and at ‘em at 5:30am! With the intention of being on a horse at 7am, the mornings tended to start pretty early. It looked...

Race Day 1: The night before had been an eventful one in terms of pre-race celebrations – much vodka and beer and airag had been drunk,...

Wow what happened? I blinked and August is three quarters over. I have been half-way around the world and back, met some incredible...

It’s been a busy couple of days in UB. Yesterday seemed to pass in a blur – one moment I was meeting Erik from the US and Ivo from the UK...

Well, here I am in Ulaanbaatar – I made it. This all seemed like such a far off event back when I signed up in November. Crazy how fast...

Greetings from Zaya’s Guesthouse in downtown Ulaanbaatar, home of numerous itinerant international guests, some pretty good coffee, and...

Well, here I am blogging instead of doing something more productive like, oh I don’t know, weighing each and every lithium battery I plan...

Originally posted by Katherine at 16th July 2012 at 20:43   I was awoken this morning at 5:15am by the ringing of my bedside phone. Holy...

Good day eh. I do believe this will be my last instalment before I get on the long-haul flight bound for Ulaanbaatar, so now’s the time...

Where's My Raspberries! originally posted by Katherine at 10th July 2012 at 05:36 It hit 27 degrees here today – summer has finally...