We’ve just put a down payment on a new Ural. She’s on a slow boat from Russia at the moment, but that’s ok. We’ll wait.

As we mentioned <a href="/2012/03/04/shopping-for-the-ural/">in the last post</a>, we’ve decided to get a Ural for our upcoming Round-the-world adventure.

We’ve pretty much concluded at this point that the next big trip is going to be a RTW (or as much of it as can be navigated with dogs) with the dogs. We’ve pondered various options, and neither of us really likes the idea of a trailer for the dogs - so we’re going with a Ural! Plenty of people travel with dogs in a sidecar, and we both feel that buying a rig that’s designed to be a sidecar from the ground up is a better option than trying to hack one of our F650s for a…