After a few weeks hard work the website is now live! There are many pages that are not completed yet and some errors and odd bits but there is more content appearing every day.
Now, where to get these vaccinations.....
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
First Post: Preparation
If someone would have told me, six months ago, that I would be planning to drive halfway around the world in a car that is barely sufficient to get to the supermarket and back I'd have probably told them to lay off the crack. The idea first came about while having a pint with Rich, he told me he had been wanting to do it for years. Well, it all seemed very exciting and a bit stupid, and like most exciting stupid ideas it ate away at the back of my mind for a couple of months until I finally caved-in and decided "Fuck it, lets do it". Shortly after I convinced my clog-wearing, rubber-making, friend Ralph to come along too! He didn't seem to take much convincing.
So, what have we been doing over the last few months?
Quite a lot actually, but there is still lots more to do! Ralph has been jetting back and forth from cloggie-land like the man on a mission that he is and together we have been building this website. I think it is starting to come together now. We have bought 1 out of 2 required cars, a tiny little red Suzuki swift with a tiny little 3 cylinder engine. This is the car that Rich and Kev will be driving into Mongolia, we are now on the look out for another swift of the same model (GLS 2002 or 2003).
We have a vague idea of a route, we're going north first via Finland and down through Russia!
Basically: UK -> France -> Belgium -> Netherlands -> Germany -> Czech Republic -> Poland -> Lithuania -> Latvia -> Estonia -> Finland -> Russia (St. Petersburg down to Astrakhan) -> Kazakhstan -> Into Russia Again -> Mongolia.
We have a planning website set up, sorry guys its secret! But we've using it to co-ordinate kit lists and costs, things we need to do to the cars etc! Mainly we use it to argue about whether we really have space for that extra beer fridge and 1 MW sound system and whether the silk escape map and 10 gold sovereigns sewed into our belts are really necessary.
I've started getting my VISA applications together, a bit of a tricky and expensive process! Lots of forms and the fear that they might be rejected (touch wood they won't).
So what is on my todo list:
Don't fail my degree!, get vaccinated, get travel insurance, finish this site, learn how to fix cars as much as possible in 5 months, learn as much Russian as I can in 5 months! Find some sponsorship and get lots of charity donations for CNCF!
So, what have we been doing over the last few months?
Quite a lot actually, but there is still lots more to do! Ralph has been jetting back and forth from cloggie-land like the man on a mission that he is and together we have been building this website. I think it is starting to come together now. We have bought 1 out of 2 required cars, a tiny little red Suzuki swift with a tiny little 3 cylinder engine. This is the car that Rich and Kev will be driving into Mongolia, we are now on the look out for another swift of the same model (GLS 2002 or 2003).
We have a vague idea of a route, we're going north first via Finland and down through Russia!
Basically: UK -> France -> Belgium -> Netherlands -> Germany -> Czech Republic -> Poland -> Lithuania -> Latvia -> Estonia -> Finland -> Russia (St. Petersburg down to Astrakhan) -> Kazakhstan -> Into Russia Again -> Mongolia.
We have a planning website set up, sorry guys its secret! But we've using it to co-ordinate kit lists and costs, things we need to do to the cars etc! Mainly we use it to argue about whether we really have space for that extra beer fridge and 1 MW sound system and whether the silk escape map and 10 gold sovereigns sewed into our belts are really necessary.
I've started getting my VISA applications together, a bit of a tricky and expensive process! Lots of forms and the fear that they might be rejected (touch wood they won't).
So what is on my todo list:
Don't fail my degree!, get vaccinated, get travel insurance, finish this site, learn how to fix cars as much as possible in 5 months, learn as much Russian as I can in 5 months! Find some sponsorship and get lots of charity donations for CNCF!
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Status 1/2
Yes! We have something to fill our garage with!!! Wait, I'm actually not sure we have a garage yet...
Anyway, as I said, we bought our first Mongol stallion! Flaming red with Japanese heritage, an engine the size of a milk carton and the off-road capability of a wheelchair... a Suzuki Swift!As Borat would say; "I'm very excite!"
This weekend I will make some pictures to publish on the site here.
Be the first to hear the latest... visit our team page
http://www.2cars4tools.com
Ralph
Anyway, as I said, we bought our first Mongol stallion! Flaming red with Japanese heritage, an engine the size of a milk carton and the off-road capability of a wheelchair... a Suzuki Swift!As Borat would say; "I'm very excite!"
This weekend I will make some pictures to publish on the site here.
Be the first to hear the latest... visit our team page
http://www.2cars4tools.com
Ralph
Saturday, 15 January 2011
In the green
Just a short message to say that we're officially in the green charity funds wise! :)
This all thanks to all the great Keltan employees who bought lots of tickets for the Party Lottery.
A total of 600 GBP was collected and donated to CNCF.
Off-topic...
Yesterday I saw the movie "The Way Back"; A fact-based story centered on soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag in 1940. I was instantly thrilled and terrified at the same time. We're going through similar and sometimes the very same waste lands as the actors in the movie went through.
This trip is worth all the effort we're putting in. Not only for the adventure, but especially because we're doing good; helping these charities.
Ralph
This all thanks to all the great Keltan employees who bought lots of tickets for the Party Lottery.
A total of 600 GBP was collected and donated to CNCF.
Off-topic...
Yesterday I saw the movie "The Way Back"; A fact-based story centered on soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag in 1940. I was instantly thrilled and terrified at the same time. We're going through similar and sometimes the very same waste lands as the actors in the movie went through.
This trip is worth all the effort we're putting in. Not only for the adventure, but especially because we're doing good; helping these charities.
Ralph
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Square one
We're signed up and psyched up! Ready for action!
and action is needed... :o
A google-site is setup and we're adding stuff to it every day.
To-do lists, Sponsor availability, discussions about the vehicle... you name it.
That's the number one priority now by the way, the vehicle.
It sounds like an easy task, finding a trustworthy <10 year old and <1.2L,
but it proofs to be somewhat of a challenge if you're considering we don't want to spend too much.
Luckily we love challenges, otherwise we wouldn't have signed up! ;)
I'm not sure what else I can put on here. We've only just begun, right.
Hope to see some of you on the Christmas party the 10th.
No excuses, I'm flying in from The Netherlands!
Yours,
Ralph
and action is needed... :o
A google-site is setup and we're adding stuff to it every day.
To-do lists, Sponsor availability, discussions about the vehicle... you name it.
That's the number one priority now by the way, the vehicle.
It sounds like an easy task, finding a trustworthy <10 year old and <1.2L,
but it proofs to be somewhat of a challenge if you're considering we don't want to spend too much.
Luckily we love challenges, otherwise we wouldn't have signed up! ;)
I'm not sure what else I can put on here. We've only just begun, right.
Hope to see some of you on the Christmas party the 10th.
No excuses, I'm flying in from The Netherlands!
Yours,
Ralph
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