VPN setup between 2 mikrotik routers

I followed this guide to try and setup a vpn and am having problems getting it to work.
https://www.nasa-security.net/mikrotik/l2tp-ipsec-vpn-site-to-site-mikrotik-how-to/

I have a Mikrotik on both ends of the vpn. The installed SA’s never show up and i am not able to send traffic between the two locations.
Any help for a Mikrotek noob would be appreciated.
Also any info i need to supply just ask.

I used Greg Sowell’s examples to setup tunnels between Mikrotiks.

http://gregsowell.com/?page_id=951

I can ping the router’s LAN IPs but not any PC on the LAN at the opposite end of the tunnel, still working on that.

I also tried setting up one RB as a client to the other and still have the same problem, which does not make sense to me because I can use L2TP on my Win 8 laptop and see local IPs through the VPN.

i think you need to setup your routes correctly. and let the pc know which is the gateway and how to route the ips in and out of the network