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 to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
First Stop – Brussels
We sped off from the Festival of Slow and drove a long day through 3 countries – the UK, France, and Belgium. We were invited…