Team America
3May/11Off

uk help

We need your help. I've been slowly making contacts in uk but have had little success in wanting to help us with our car buying process. If you know someone who is mad enough to help us on our adventure please send them our way. The easiest way that I can say we need help is with all the things I can't do from stateside. I would only expect a few hours of time, and we will gladly repay them in pints and dinner.

As for everything else, we've been slowly grinding through the planning process. visa machine have received our visas and my status indicates "processing" all of which is a good sign. Hopefully things are done in a timely manner so that when our newly stamped passports return, we can ship them off for russian and Azerbaijan visas.

I keep mentioning this fundraiser and its date has been pushed back a few times, but it's for realz. This upcoming weekend we are going to film some more Justy Power for the film presentation at our fundraiser.

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We've made it!!
Total Travel Time: 51 Days
Total Distance shown by Odometer: 9642 miles


The Mongol Rally is a UK-to-Mongolia, no back-up, no support, no set route adventure for charity - involving 15 countries and 10,000 miles' worth of mountains, deserts, bad roads, no roads, bandits, and various other pickles in comically unsuitable 1-litre cars.


Freedom costs a buck-oh-five. But we've heard that in Mongolia $1.05 also gets you a 3-story yurt mansion on the shores of Ögii Lake.

So off we go in our Fiat Panda. And since terrorism is officially over, Team America is now all about charity and liberation! Viva la Facebook!

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Facts about Mongolia

  • 19th largest and the most sparsely populated independent country in the world
  • 2.9 million people
  • 30% of the population are nomadic or semi-nomadic
  • predominant religion is Tibetan Buddhism
  • 20% of the population live on less than US$1.25 per day
  • economy is centered on agriculture and mining(like copper, coal, molybdenum, tin, tungsten, and gold)

Fun Facts about 2009 Rally

  • Number of Teams started: 359
  • Number of Teams to Finish: 281 (78%)
  • Number of Teams to Retire: 65 (18%)
  • Number of Teams M.I.A.: 13 (4%)
  • Number of Teams Retired before Mongolia (or M.I.A): 34 (9% – 44% all retirees)
  • Number of Teams Retired in Mongolia: 44 (12% – 56% all retirees)
  • Number of cars donated to AFD: 278 (80%)
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