Our Mongol Rally ended just over two weeks ago as we pulled into Ulaan Baatar and donated our two tiny Fiat Puntos to The Adventurists For Development. It’s taken a while for all of us to get home, to get over our jet lag, and…
no comment[xmlgm {http://rally.roamgreen.org/wp-content/content/maps/bhmongolia.kmz} ] I feel like I should post a ton of photos from the last few days, but it’s 3am and there are a couple thousand to go through and edit… at this point it’s looking like you all get more photos when I…
1 commentWith just a few hours sleep, we were up and back on the road at 5am this morning to make up for time lost breaking down before Dundgobi. Jean, Amy and Yasmin were off in the Land Cruiser with Tom, Kim and I following in…
no commentIt’s 8:30 at night, the sun has already gone down, and I’m chasing a Russian jeep through the Gobi desert with rally fog lights and high beams lighting a path over rocks and sand berms just begging to take me out for good. I find…
2 commentsQuick update: After several more hours wrestling Mongolian customs bureaucracy yesterday morning, we finally cleared at about 1pm and raced towards Ulaan Baatar. We entered the city at about 6pm, navigated this huge maze of traffic and finally arrived at the guesthouse Kim had arranged…
3 commentsSheltered by a stand of trees, we didn’t quite wake up as the sun rose over the eastern shore of Lake Baikal this morning, but we were up and back on the road as early as we could muster after a full day of driving…
no commentHello world! Yes, I am indeed alive and kicking, now in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It’s been 3 weeks since my passport with all my visas was stolen in Istanbul and with so many decisions to make and emotions to digest it’s taken me a while to…
6 commentsEvery July 10th/11th Mongolians celebrate Naadam, a Mongolian Olympics of sorts. Naadam is a celebration of the 3 “manly” sports and the military traditions they represent: archery, horseback racing, and wrestling. Tom, Jean and I were joined by some friends out in Redmond’s Farrel McWhirter…
1 commenttugrik Originally uploaded by autarken Well, rich in our friends and experiences that is. We’ve been lucky enough to befriend a former rallier, Chatham, from last year’s rally who lives in Seattle, and he kindly donated some of his Mongolian tugrik to us… then Joe…
1 commentA big thanks to the Mercy Corps Seattle office and Dominic Graham, Mercy Corps’ country director for Mongolia, for inviting the team to a wrap-up meeting regarding their work in Mongolia. Oidov Vaanchig, project officer for Mercy Corps (MC) in Mongolia, put on a great…
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