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 [...]
One down…
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008…six to go.
We’ve just sent off for our Mongolian visas. If all goes well, we should have our passports back by Friday. Just in time for me to pick up the car.
EDIT: Woop, I’ve just received our letters of invite to Russia. We only need a few more of those…
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 [...]
Initial Progress
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008So, we’ve been signed up for a few weeks now and preparations are getting well and truly under way. We’ve paid our entry fee, built this website, researched cars, routes, visas, vaccinations and equipment, and in general it’s all finally starting to feel scarily like this is really happening.
We’ve just about acquired all the information [...]