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A rally which starts from Goodwood Race track in England and ends (for some) in the Mongolian Capital Ulaan Baatar……four weeks and a whole heap of ‘living on the knife edge’ later and what you have is the Mongol Rally!
I know what you are thinking……..Who would be so crazy to even entertain such an undertaking?!
Well……that’s where we come in, so let us introduce ourselves as Matt Gault and Wayne Mills-Kidals…two friends from Lincoln who have an undeniable thirst for adventure and all things risk-laden but at the same time, we know a good cause when we see one! We hope to take on the challenge of the Mongol Rally and have armed ourselves with a Suzuki Jimny 1300cc as being just the tool for the job!18 Days to go!
Posted by Wayno at 6th July 2010 at 12:51
Well theres 18 Days left before we set off, and we are nearly there with our preperation work We have Kindly been donated an airbed to keep us slightly comfy along the way, thanks to Aerobed
Also thanks to the comapny I work for Timico who also made a donation towards the cause. We have a Uk mobile number which we will update before we go where you can ring us at local mobile rate and hopefully were going to be fully trackable with a GPS navigation system, track our progress with 10minute waypoint updates... If anybody is interested you can attend the Mongol Rally launch part at Goodwood Race track, its free to go and should be a good crack. To find out details on the Launch Pary check it out here  
Track us by GPS!
Posted by Wayno at 7th July 2010 at 15:40
we now have full GPS tracking facility on our jeep - you can see to the left a page called " TRACK US BY GPS " click on there and this will load our tracking page, make sure you go full screen to get a better view. Obviously until we set of there will probably only be test runs, but when we set off you can see our exact location! keep tracking us daily :-)
Contact us on the Road!
Posted by Wayno at 20th July 2010 at 09:17
we have a UK Mobile phone number which you can text and call us on and we use the same number throughout the entire journey! feel free to send us texts of encourgment along the way or call us 07924555798
Chichester, UK
Recieved by SMS at 24th July 2010 at 11:03
we are at goodwood and loving the sun
Chichester, UK
Recieved by SMS at 24th July 2010 at 14:34
finally on the track and leaving goodwood! Any good?
Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Recieved by SMS at 24th July 2010 at 19:04
to all the doubters, we made it out of goodwood and we are now in france. Were aiming to get to liege for first nights camp. Convo
Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Recieved by SMS at 24th July 2010 at 19:32
to all the doubters, we made it out of goodwood and we are now in france.Were aiming 2get2 liege for1st night camp. Convoying with
Walloon Region, Belgium
Recieved by SMS at 24th July 2010 at 22:51
rocked up at a campsite and they let us stay for free. Result.
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Recieved by SMS at 25th July 2010 at 12:41
Just seen our first lot of other ralliers out of england.
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Recieved by SMS at 25th July 2010 at 15:07
had a taste of some quality german meat. The orginal bratwurst. Just left koblenz now heading for wurzburg to camp for second night.
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Recieved by SMS at 25th July 2010 at 15:13
somebody txt us the formula1 results please. Our number can be found on website.
Pilsen, Czech Republic
Recieved by SMS at 26th July 2010 at 12:02
just entered cz. Convoying with some yanks to klevona castle.
Lower Austria, Austria
Recieved by SMS at 27th July 2010 at 14:43
on the road to budapest. Party at the castle last night was a good old knees up apart from gettin the chairs robbed, think we kn
Brandenburg, Germany
Recieved by SMS at 27th July 2010 at 15:46
just hit our first 1K miles. Only 9000 more to do
the story so far...
Posted by Wayno at 28th July 2010 at 07:12
Arad, Romania
Recieved by SMS at 28th July 2010 at 12:43
great night in budapest and one of the best kebabs we have ever eaten.. Missed out on the goulasche tho. On route to the transfargaria
Sibiu, Romania
Recieved by SMS at 29th July 2010 at 06:28
team carolastra in front of us just been pulled by the gypsie police, waiting for the fine to be dished out then back on the road.
Bucharest, Romania
Recieved by SMS at 29th July 2010 at 13:58
ended up a fifty dollar fine, not bad when they started at 200 and to take the passports. Romania has redemed it self the transfa
Ankara, Turkey
Recieved by SMS at 31st July 2010 at 13:41
few large beers last night and the blue mosque in istanbul, eating up the motorway on route to gorema! So hot about 40C
Varna, Bulgaria
Recieved by SMS at 29th July 2010 at 17:55
Just broke our top speed record, 90mph! Dont think we will do that again, just near the black sea coast where were gunna camp on the/_
, Turkey
Recieved by SMS at 30th July 2010 at 13:17
just entered turkey after a bit of messing about at border control. Fairly straight forward! On towards istanbul for the night stop.
Istanbul, Turkey
Recieved by SMS at 30th July 2010 at 15:30
just over 2 000miles that we have done! Just bumped into another team at turkish services! Looking for a hostel in city centre then a 3team/1@YwΩΣ{^@Ux night out!@
a decent blog update at last..
Posted by Wayno at 31st July 2010 at 23:49
its been pretty manic the past week, little sleep and lots of driving... ive not had chance to make a decent blog post other than the SMS updates which only seem to allow one message of update to appear on the website. after launch we travelled to france, ended up blagging a free nights camping (since its all for charity ) :-) then it was on towards the part in the castle in CZ, we stopped off for some Bratwrust as you do and had a good old knees up with the rally crew in the CZ castle.. Since then we have been in convoy with a great pair of lads and one of them had his wife in toe for a few days but she departed from Turkey today, probably a good idea as its going to get downhill from here... interestingly they had a 2 seater van and managed to alternate a third person in back! that was interesting at border crossings but managed to get through them all without any hassle.. Romania was not what i expected, very backwards, lots of original Romany Gypsies all over, didnt fancy staying too long in there, the boys we are in convoy with got pulled for an overtaking manuvre and it set them back 50 dollars! not bad considering they started the bidding at 200USD! but it was worth it for the Transfagarian highway which has featured on top gear as one of the best roads in the world.. it would of been amazing in something with a bit more poke but the Jimny managed it no probs.. on the downside Steve came in contact with a some trippy frog so a quick stop at a back street Romanian hospital and a few injections and we was on our way again to Bulgaria... Bulgaria was just a whistlestop tour, we ploughed through and headed to Turkey.. Spent the night in a hostel in Istanbul, had our first car accident but it wasnt us, the taxi drivers are insane our there, we caught a cab to the Blue Mosque and I managed to get my face planted in the window because our driver wasnt paying attention and ended up the back of another driver.. i think its fairly common our there, they just had a quick inspection and was back on there ways again just a little paint-work! Today we drove past the capital and are currently in the wild west part of Turkey! its not for the faint hearted and our orginal plan was just to camp up but the locals dont seem the friendliest so we gave it a miss and the plan tomorrow is to do another marathon drive to the Iran Border.. Ill update you all as and when we can! thanks for eveybody whos been tracking and texting! PS - turkey internet doesnt seem to get on well with google so having issues uploading to the web albums! at the minute there all going on facebook.. Wayne & Matt!
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