2001 Articles

Baku-Ceyhan Journal 2000

Billingsley, Dodge

Day 1, Heading West Baku, Azerbaijan, the gathering place for our unlikely caravan. The plan is to ride the route of the proposed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, nearly 1000 miles, on motorcycles. Not any motorcycles, but Soviet/Russian made Urals with sidecars. We are more than a dozen, from the United States, United Kingdom, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and other states. Some of us are very familiar with the region while this will be the first time for others.