There are only two days left to finish everything, adrenaline is rising, chaos is (slowly) decreasing.
The good news:
- Michal returned from Australia and due to extensive jetlag he is very efficient (spends all the night working!)
- we got our sponsors’ stickers yesterday and the Beast is even more beautiful now (see below)
- nothing new broke during the last days (with the exception of the wipers, but this was fixed quickly)
- already before start we are becoming great improvisers: instead of fixing a broken horn, I decided to buy an air horn (the one used to make noise at soccer stadiums) and to attach it to the roof rack
- we are still receiving lots of donations, the basement of my house is again full of them, Michal will deliver the next load of boxes to the donation truck tomorrow
- my sister prepared a perfect emergency medical kit for us (it seems to cover any medium sized hospital’s needs for a year or two)
- blogging from our sat phone and even SMS blogging works, so you will have up to date stories every day
The bad news is that I am tied to the bed by flu, and will not be able to join the meet&greet party tomorrow night.
The official start is at 8am on Saturday at Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, join us if you can make it, it will be a big party with strange costumes and even stranger cars (rumors talk about a Trabant covered by grass, rusty old Polski Fiats, and a hovercraft joining the race).
Love your website and blog. It’s hilarious! We are joining the rally from Xabia/Denia in Spain where its a little warmer. Currently our GPS has broken and we missed the insurance deadline, our car cost us 3 times more to prepare than even Bill Gates would pay…and itdoesnt hide the fact that its still a 1993 Land Cruiser with a bit of rust. This is our second B2B and we are still getting everything wrong!
See you in Morocco or on the Ferry (4.30 Almeria)
Raoul
Around 2000 pens, colouring pencils, some hundreds rulers, paper blocks,one cubic metre “teddies” are coming on top of the computers, books, phones, and teddies we had already…
Thus this is not chaos, this is simply great !!
Let’s see the picture we will get
Our car is fantastic !
Hi Andras,
Hopefully the flu has worn out by now and you’re able to get fully recharged for the big event.
I wish you and your team a lot of fun, and luck, on your trip.
May the Moose be with you !!:-)!!
Regards,
Alain.
Good luck for the team. I will follow your blog. Great idea.
I wish your team (and all others) good luck and great enjoyable trip, hoping for all come back safely. Joining start via live inet broadcast 🙂