The Trans Siberian Highway to Vladivostock sounds an ultimate adventure ride/drive, just as the Trans Siberian Express sounds a romantic experiance.
In reality both now are very, very long and very, very boring, journeys - mainly looking at trees.
The choice is do you want to be travelling with all the usual pollution, traffic, fumes etc on roads of similar quality as western countries OR do you want to spend 10 days and nights (from Moscow at least) in an overcrowded 'cattle truck', train carriage of an earlier era, where theft could be a problem, with people who think, act, (and probably smell), different to your expectation.
Neither appeal too much. But I have seen elements of both, so I am keen to find different journeys and meet the real folks of the lands I visit.
Russians are totally amazed at Westerners romantic notions of both journeys.
London to Brighton was once regarded with similar reverence. And that was only a couple of hours, not a couple of weeks!
(Rant over!

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