The Best Laid Plans – Mongol Rally
I don’t think any Mongol Rally team has actually made a plan and stuck to it. The rally throws you too many curveballs to be able…
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Setting Up Camp – Mongol Rally
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…
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Bad Things do Happen on the Mongol Rally
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…
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Camping on the Mongol Rally
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…
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Locals to the Rescue – Mongol Rally
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…
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The Hardest, Longest, Slowest, Dirtiest Road Yet – Mongol Rally
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…
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The End of The Road – Mongol Rally
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…
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Good Luck at the Kazakhstan Border – Mongol Rally
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…
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Mongol Rally: Driving in Ukraine
Every day brings with it a new driving challenge in the Mongol Rally. Today’s challenge was potholes. We had heard horror stories about the roads and…
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Learning to Drive on the Autobahn
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…
