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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…

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…

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…

This is exactly what I was trying to avoid…I was hungry and tired. A deadly combination for anyone who has to be near me. Unfortunately,…