The Rendevous

With more dad puns than Modern Family, Nikki P descended on Munich with potential wifey (Amber) in tow. After a quick night out on the town plus full on immersion into German culture, the sleep-deprived duo ambled out of Landshut the following Monday, driving the GK Rally car.

While the duo drives north to London (with a potential detour through Paris), Tom is chilling and catching up with family. He boards a flight on Saturday to Heathrow where Nick will pick him up and drive straight to the Rally party.

The Rally party will likely be the only time that all Ralliers are together in one place. It's expected that a few may crash and burn (figuratively and literally).

The final strands are coming together. In the words of Julius Caesar, "The die is cast". There's no turning back now for these lads and an uncertain adventure lies ahead.

Keep up all the support!

Xoxo GK

...rusty chariot?

As far as the "spirit of the rally" is concerned, it's expected that the trusty chariot be a cheap shit-box with barely enough grunt to make it out of greater London. Tom spent the last two weeks making deals, and inspecting wheels, looking for the perfect rust box...

Initial help was enlisted from Robert Schadt, a well-known Bavarian local who steered GK in the right direction. A sturdy list of potential shaggin' wagons was quickly rustled up. Tom wasted no time in getting on to them.

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Hans Winner, a good family friend of Tom's, was then recruited to help GK barter with the conservative it's-who-you-know auto traders of South Bavaria. With Tom barely understanding Hans's speedy and thick Bavarian accent, the two covered about 700kms of Niederbayern looking for the best (or wurst) Germany could offer.

It's here that GK have to acknowledge the amazingly selfless, helpful assistance and large amount of time, that Hans gave to our lofty vehicular goal. Without him, Tom would have been unable to find and purchase the perfectly polished shit-box that we did settle on.

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More work lies ahead for the GK team to get the car fully rally ready. Nick is arriving in Germany on Friday, reuniting GK for the first time in 6 months. It will then be his mission to drive the car from Munich all the way to London.

Thanks for the support! Talk soon ;)

Xoxo GK

European Invasion

The lads have landed!

With cooked chook Nikki P galavanting round Switzerland and Tommy danger ripping up Germany, Genghis Kharnage has well and truly landed for their Eurasian summer offensive.

Google searches for a shit-house car are well underway with Russian Ladas, Toyota Allah-Akbar Hiluxes, and Renault shaggin' wagoons top of the GK list. Given the criteria require the vehicular death box to be 1000cc engine rating or less, under £1000 pounds, and non 4WD - the pickings are slim to laughable.

Not much has changed since the last blog post except that old mate Peardon was almost arrested in land of the holey cheese, Tom almost didn't get his passport back in time before leaving the country, and Em has gone AWOL.

The lads have sorted everything apart from the vehicle which could potentially be done by this weekend. The bomb has to be registered by 26/6/17 but Tom is about as hopeful as Nick's Tinder profile that it will be sorted by then.

With not much else to do the lads are enjoying rollicking in the Euro summer. At the time of writing this post, Nick has just landed in Iceland where the sun does not set!

The lads are however turning their minds to the finer details of the trip. In particular, places they want to visit on the trip. Currently the top two on the list are "Chur", Switzerland, and "Fucking", Austria (Nick for some reason really wants to go there).

Top preparatory internet searches also include: "are there snakes in Kazakhstan?", "what does Allah Akbar mean?", and "current ISIS territory".

Well, things are starting to come together. GK hopes to post photos of the shite-mobile soon once it is purchased and painted.

Keep up the support, you know we need it!

Xoxo GK

Getting ready for the rally...

**...Future headline August 2017: RALLIERS CAUGHT BY ISIS...**

With about as much preparation as Donald Trump's hair stylist, the lads (Tommy and Nikki P) and ladette (Emral) eagerly await their Rally adventure!

Much of Nick's preparation involves **long distance selfies** on his personal drone and deep walks on the beach. Tom on the other hand is busy sticking his head in the sand and praying for a miracle. Emily is likely just watching the palava unfold shaking her head and quietly patching up the holes of **this already sinking ship.**

Banter aside, **we are all fizzing at the bung hole** for this epic adventure and can't wait to start sharing our photos and stories with everyone.

We all have different personal reasons for why we are doing this rally. They must come from a desire to escape the norm and do something outside our comfort zones. However, the three of us, as well as the other Ralliers, **share one common goal. That is to raise money for our respective charities**.

Tom has nominated Mphatikizo as his charity. You can visit them at: [Mphatikizo](https://www.mphatikizo.com/) . Tom's Aunty and Uncle have packed up their lives in NZ and moved with the kids back to Malawi, Africa to **set up their orphanage** and start social business initiatives and education programmes designed to improve the lives of ordinary Malawians. Tom really believes in Mphatikizo's purpose and goals.

Nick and Emily will post their respective charities on the Genghis Kharnage page which you should visit and check out.

Don't worry about the current photos, we'll quickly replace them once we are on the road and once Nick stops taking selfies of him sifting on the beach. I'll have to break it to him that there aren't many beaches where we're going... Only robbers, shit roads, and sub-par banter. Don't know how Nick convinced Emily to get amongst, just shows that she must be as crazy as the lads.

Well that's it for now. (**We are actually preparing, don't worry**). Keep in touch, keep up the chat, love your work.

Cheers, Tommy xoxo