I expected poor roads, hot days, car issues, team disagreements, dirt, hunger, and communication challenges. But there was one thing I didn’t expect – Kazakhstan….
This is my favorite team photo to date! We rolled into this dried-out lavender field while the sun was setting and quickly jumped into…
By the time this post goes live, I’m hoping that I will be close to entering Mongolia. I feel (and hope) it’s at this point I…
The best thing about camping on the Mongol Rally is peeing in the desert under the stars. It’s bliss. And it’s certainly better than Kazakhstan…
One of the hardest things about the Mongol Rally is that we are speeding through countries in a car. This means that we really don’t have…
Today sucked…really sucked. I expected the hard, slow, dirty driving in the Mongol Rally, but I wasn’t expecting it today. There really was no road…
After camping without much preparation the night before, all the teams got up, took down camp, and drove into the next town, Atyrau, where we…
We made it from Russia to Kazakhstan, but first, we had to cross a rickety pontoon bridge, which was quite an adventure! Then we abruptly…
As we rolled into Volgograd (the former Stalingrad), it was filled with boxy cement architecture and crazy drivers. We stayed near the town center in…
Most of the time, when I go to a country for the first time, it’s all about shattering stereotypes that I was brought up with. I…