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Intercontinentality
Monday, July 14th, 2008This post is being written in Asian Turkey, as we crossed the Bosphorus Bridge yeterday and officially changed continent! We spent two days in Istanbul fixing up Bertha and enquiring about an Azerbaijani vısa for Amy, with mixed success. James and Visesh spent a day getting all Bertha’s… quirks looked at by mechanics that did [...]
T-Minus 12 hours
Saturday, July 5th, 2008Here are the photos of our stickerified cars (thank you ASAP Printing), and probably our last blog update from this country.
When internet availability fails us, we will update our other blog via sms at http://mongolia.charityrallies.org/en/teams/1510/blogs
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Zen and the Art of Hilux Maintenance
Friday, June 13th, 2008So, earlier Visesh and I decided that we would perform an oil change on our trusty car. We have never done anything to a car at all, but we thought this a relatively benign place to start. Work started at 4pm, and went something like this:
1600: Go to Halfords, buy required oil, oil wrench [...]
Team +1
Friday, June 13th, 2008After a brief hiatus for exams, we return with some exciting news: We have a new team member! Joining us on our madcap journey will be Miss Amy Sheppard, a friend of mine and James’ from our school days. Returning from Australia after partaking in the world’s longest summer work placement (2 years), it took [...]
A car! Or is it a truck…?
Monday, April 14th, 2008We’ve got one. Almost. No, it’s not the one pictured below…
It’s a K-reg blue Toyota Hilux Surf (2nd generation, imported from Japan, 2.4L turbo diesel - woo vegetable oil * perhaps?) with about 144k kilometres on the clock. These cars are built on the Hilux pick-up chassis and are built like tanks and can [...]
Carbon Footprint
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008In this day and age, caring for the environment is essential. I’ve been approached by a few people who’ve asked me what my carbon footprint for this trip will be. Why not just fly there instead? This got me thinking about how much CO2 we’d be emitting, and ways to offset these emissions.
I stumbled upon [...]