1 week till start..

So Paul and I have landed in the UK from our long journey from Australia. We took a 6 hour flight to Kuala Lumpur with a very uncomfortable 4 hour stopover.. then a 12.5hour flight to London's Heathrow.

 

Before even making it to our temp accomodation we met and get cheap drinks from the local pub owner in Putney before going to the flat with our aussie friend Kylie... 

 

Then we say it.. 1.2L of muscle and brawn!!!! our little fiat bravo... ROCKY!!  *que the music*

 

Found our the he has a little power steering pump leak that squirts fluid onto the exhaust.. makes a bit of noise and alot of smoke.. so thats still got to be addressed.. Apart from the power steering.. a wheel allignment and a top of of fluids we're set to go.

 

We're doing all our final shopping and camping prep.. which everyone else has had months to do. Disadvantage of being on the other side of the world is you cant bring alot with you on the plane. I did manage to squeeze a 8kg tool box into our alloted 50kg of baggage. Saved us about 250pound worth of tools.

 

This is sort of a 2nd donation as i was able to squeeze alot of tools in to donate with the car at the end of the trip.

 

Meet and greet organise by Laura (self proclaimed the queen of the rally) at george's inn at London Bridge was epic good fun. Good use of the "Build a Cheap Rally Car" book helped us find the party group. Most teams are in agreement that Paul and Myself are crazy for undertaking this rally and organise it from the other side of the world.. but also do it all in under 2.5 months.

Going to head out today and buy some paint and other materials to paint our car in war paint. Should look pretty epic driving through london all painted up.. :D

Looking forward to the launch next week.. 

 

Jeff - Dropbears Inc.

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Slight Change

Route Change:

After a good chat with Rob from the Adventurists over skype tonight he mentioned that all southern boarders of Russia around Georgia and Azerbaijan are closed. 

 

Not just out of order... like military closed. He did suggest an alternative though.. a ferry from Turkey -> Russia for $60.. BARGAIN!!

 

Looks like our tour will take us across 2 bodies of water over the 16,000kms trip. 

 

Bazinga!

 

-Dropbears INc.

The Start....

Tuesday 27/4/2010

Recieved our confirmation we actually have a spot in this years rally.

Paulie and myself are now scrambing to decide on a rough route to plan our visa's before we leave. Apprantly Georgia is a bad place to go.. any comments!?

We still need:

Visa's

Car

Camping Gear

Return Flight to the UK and Australia

Any other misc supplies we'll need to complete the journey.

We're not worried, we're in the true spirit of the race already and we still havent left Australia.. LOL.

-Dropbears Inc.