Good Morning Sweethearts. hola and greetings from the Czech Republic, looking forward to the upcoming carnage and adventure at the top of the world with my grilfriend. Can't wait to meet you all.

Hi everyone. We’re 3 friends from UK and India doing the Rickshaw Run from Kochi to Jaisalmer. It’s our first adventure and we’re super excited.  We’re doing it to raise funds for Girls Education in Firozabad, India. 

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Team: Mistakes Were Made arrives as a one-man circus with three unimpressive celebrities and a mini-mini van that resents existing.

Driver: Daryl Daley, semi-retired Canadian, veteran, professionally stubborn.

Vehicle: “Cpl Bloggins – The Mighty Kangoo - Reporting for duty. Unarmed. Unfit. Unqualified.” Smells like old coffee and bad decisions.

Parody Co-pilots: Justin Trudeau, providing 400kg of aerodynamic ego drag; Mark Carney, elbows up, armed with charts and charisma set to airplane mode; Greta Thunberg, the loudest sock puppet in Scandinavia, yelling HOW DARE YOU every time the throttle moves.

Logistics strategy: pray, cable ties, and a laminated apology to border guards.

Nutrition plan: sausage, panic, warm water.

Mechanical plan: break, fix, repeat.

Morale plan: roast the Kangoo until it starts out of spite.

Objective: cross continents while making other teams feel better about their choices.

Contingency plan: none, which is the point.

This is the way.

Day 0: The Recruitment of Cpl Bloggins (and Other Strategic Errors)

The paperwork is done. The entry fee has been paid. The point of no return has been briskly walked past while my wife looked on with the expression normally reserved for people licking batteries. I am now officially registered for the 2026 Mongol Rally.

My chosen steed? A Renault Kangoo 4×4 from 2007, affectionately—and bureaucratically—named Cpl Bloggins. Known in the unit as “The Mighty Kangoo,” it produces roughly the same horsepower as a hairdryer running on guilt. German inspectors looked disapprovingly but it's it's not due till Nov 2026 so I'm good.

Team Mistakes Were Made now stands complete. Myself, plus three ridiculous co-drivers who may or may not also exist as prototype sock-puppet blow-up hybrids. For legal clarity: these are parody representations of Justin Trudeau (Department of Ego and Self-Congratulation), Mark Carney (Ministry of Economic Nonsense and Minimal Charisma), and Greta Thunberg (Supreme Commander of Moral Outrage and Recyclable Materials). None are real, all are judgmental, and each will be listed as non-sentient satirical passengers on the official team roster.

My wife, still serving with NATO and therefore fluent in both logic and disappointment, has offered full moral disapproval from a safe distance. She describes the Kangoo as “a cry for help on wheels,” which is, admittedly, the most accurate engineering summary to date.

Preparations now enter Phase One: acquiring spare parts, extra tape, and the emotional fortitude to be laughed at by strangers across 15 000+ km..

Objective:

To travel 15 000+ km. powered by hope, duct tape, and the collective disappointment of the Western world—proving once and for all that courage and poor judgment share the same ignition key.

Propper voyage on the Mongol rally in 2026, with a couple of mates from Denmark

Im heading to Peru Monkey Run April 26... No mates, hoping to make some new ones!