Have you ever worked so long and hard on something that you forgot what you were doing or why you were doing it? The idea of the Mongol Rally for me started back in June 2010; that’s when I found some teammates that agreed to come with me. Ever since then I’ve been working on [...]

  I had envisioned this for over a year.  A regular car with stickers all over it as if were NASCAR.  There’s something very liberating about doing what you are not supposed to do.  Plastering the perfectly good little car in stickers is normally against the rules, but in the Mongol Rally it’s expected! In [...]

Last Saturday was the kickoff to the Mongol Rally; a moment I had been waiting a year+ for. We were stopping for final auto supplies and then going to participate in the big kick off party properly named The Festival of Slow at Goodwood race track. After seeing other cars pull up in the Halford [...]

We sped off from the Festival of Slow and drove a long day through 3 countries  – UK, France, and Belgium.  We were invited to stay with my friends Alison and Andrew from the Expat blog Cheeseweb in Brussels that night.  Boy of boy did they put on a big welcome for us! First of [...]

Oh yeah…that’s right…we are in trouble now!  This title might be a re-occurring one.  This was the first time we were stopped by the police – but I’m sure it won’t be the last.  These police men flagged us down (literally stood on the road and pointed to us to stop) in their small town [...]

What does the Social Media Syndicate Team do when they aren’t driving?  They log on. Here’s a fun picture of the Social Media Syndicate team hard at work in Brussels.  Some quick photo/video uploads, quick blog posts and social media updates and we are off!  Yet I think we are all aware that scenes like [...]

This was it – one of the main reasons I took on the Mongol Rally in the first place.  I had been scared to drive in foreign countries on 4 wheels for a very long time now – but that was about to end.  We left Brussels and I took the wheel for the first [...]

It finally came…no more being hosted by generous bloggers and big spreads of food and drink.  We are slowly driving out of our ‘area of online friends’ and into the unknown.  This would be the first time we needed to break out the camping gear for the team as we were headed for the European [...]