Adventure Timeline
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First Official Post
Team Magical Mongolian Tour has officially launched its website! Armed with empty pockets, student debt, but a mountain of unrivaled enthusiasm, we plan to scale the impossible walls of the Mongol Rally! Follow our journey as we assemble a team…
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Searching for the Magical Mongolian Mystery Mobile
Now that we’ve rolled out our website, we can really start moving along. Pasquale is working on a logo and banner that will surely kick some ass. We will be focusing our efforts to hit that $2000 charity mark and raising money for a vehicle that w…
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New Logo
Thanks to that Italian stallion Pasquale M, Team Magical Mongolian Mystery Tour has a logo!
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Business Cards
Using the fantastic logo Pasquale designed for us, I have created some business cards! I just got them in the mail yesterday and they look pretty spiffy! Look out for them! Th…
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The Recruit!
I finally convinced a friend to join Stephen and me in Mongol Rally! How did I overcome this poor victim’s will and convince him to join us as we fumble our way through approximately twelve countries? I found the person most susceptible to m…
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Vehicle and Route
We’ve made a couple key decisions over the weekend. First, we’ve decided that we’re going to charge full steam ahead for the ambulance. Looking at online German classifieds(mobile.de), it appears that used ambulances are ava…
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Final (Fab) Four
Well, we’ve been pretty quiet on the blogging front but be assured that we are working tirelessly to make this happen. We’re about 60% of the way to our MercyCorps fund raising target! In an earlier post, I mentioned that we narrowed our searc…
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Personal Updates
Stephen is keeping busy learning the inner-workings of car engines and will hopefully keep us out of trouble when it comes to fixing up the ambulance. Judy is honing her horse-riding skills, mastering bike-riding and car-driving (both s…
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Vehicle Voting
Ever since I made last post about our vehicle two days ago, I’ve gotten numerous responses from our fans asking “Do we get to vote on the car?” At first, i thought that that was absolutely silly. But after a couple beers, a swig of vodka, and cohe…
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Map that route
People have been asking us about our route. I’ve taken the time to draw up a map with our destinations plotted out:
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I am MORE officially participating in Mongol Rally!
When I signed up for Mongol Rally I knew that I would need at least a five weeks to complete the journey. Unfortunately, the start date for Mongol Rally is July 23 meaning we will finish, at the earliest, around the end of August. But school st…
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Team Injury Report 2
It’s time for another injury report. Judy came down with something, a bug of some sort over night, and woke up this morning feeling dizzy, weak, and exhausted. She ate healthily throughout the day, drank lots of fluids, and relaxed. Citrus…
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Introducing Médecins Sans Frontières aka Doctors Without Borders
We are thrilled to announce that fund raising is going really well. We have reached the event minimum requirement of 1000 UK pounds last night and will now be raising money for MSF, aka Doctors Without Borders. Given that we will be taking an a…
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Team Injury Report 3
Here’s is the third installment of the team’s injury report. Stephen was in D.C. over the past weekend and a few days this week. He is in great shape as he fenced in a fencing tournament in College Park, Maryland. Stephen will fence in a national…
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Hunting for Visas Day 1: Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan
Traveling through Uzbekistan requires Uzbek visas. According to the Uzbek embassy website, imperia…
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Hunting for Visas Day 2: Returning Uzbekistan
After failing to convince our way past the front door yesterday to check out Uzbek embassy, we att…
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Horse Back Riding
Team MMT goes horseback riding
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We Have Corporate Sponsors
Team Magical Mongolian Mystery Tour has officially incorporated! We are registered non profit called: Team MMT Inc. Not only that, we’ve collected a nice little group of corporate sponsors! At the moment we have in no particular order: New Am…
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School is Out. Now the Fun Begins!
MMMT is in full fledged visa application mode. All of us were able to obtain a visa for Turkmenistan and we are now working on getting our visas for Kazakhstan. Stephen is flying to Berlin as I write to scout out the Magical Mongolian Mystery Mobi…
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In Berlin
I’ve just arrived in Berlin. I’m here to check out the ambulance that we will acquire to donate to Mongolia. The deadline to submit car registration information is May 31st so I have about ten days to figure everything out. I’ve given myself about…
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Unveiling the Magic Mongolian Mystery Mobile
Unveiling the Magical Mongolian Mystery Mobile: the Lenon
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My First Visit to the Car Dealer in Berlin
My first visit to the car dealer in Berlin. Introducing the Magical Mongolian Mystery Mobile: the Lenon!
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Back in New York: New Ambulance, New Team Member
I’ve returned to New York after a week long visit to Berlin. Mission Ambulance Acquisition was simple: check, purchase, and register the car. What ended up happening was completely unexpected - ending with an emergency train ticket back to Berlin …
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Looking for the Magical Mongolian Mystery Mobile
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Unveiling the Magic Mongolian Mystery Mobile again
Unveiling the magic mongolian mystery mobile (part 2).
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50 days left! Berlin Recap
Berlin was supposed to unfold as follows: Wednesday, 5PM arrival Thursday, gather information. Checkout the Lenon, our chosen steed. Make sure that the ambulance does in fact exist and that I wasn’t scammed. Lenon is somewhat operational. A…
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Progress Update and Mongol Rally Fundraiser
Lots has been happening lately as we’ve been preparing for Mongol Rally, which is now less than 50 days from kick-off. Over the weekend, the team held a fundraiser for both Doctors Without Borders and Team MMT, Inc. funds at Hot Yoga in D.C. Hot Y…
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Tshirt Gallery!
Team Magical Mongolian Mystery Tour has started distributing Tshirts. We will be collecting an album of our supporters wearing them!
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Tshirts Invade New Amsterdam Fencing Academy!
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Newspaper article on our team
we’re making progress with visas, flights, and itinerary. looking like we’ll all be meeting in London/Prague between and around the 24th and 26th of July. T-shirts are on sale. Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go to Mongolia!
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Introducing Sponsor: Brooklyn Fencing Center
Magical Mongolian Mystery Tour invades Brooklyn Fencing Center! Team Magical Mongolian Mystery Tour is proud to introduce Brooklyn Fencing Center as one our spo…
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Introducing Sponsor: ABMAC
Team Magical Mongolian Mystery Tour is proud to introduce ABMAC as one of our sponsors! Established in 1937, Abmac is dedicated to promoting the advancement of health care education in China and funds projects providing visiting professorship pr…
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Introducing Sponsor: New Amsterdam Fencing Academy
Magical Mongolian Mystery Tour is thrilled to announce that New Amsterdam Fencing Academy has signed on to sponsor our team! Originally established in the year 2000 as Salle Gi…
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29 days left: Believe it or not, new car....
Last month, I returned to New York with high hopes that our newly selected ambulance, fondly dubbed Penny Lane, would be taking us to Mongolia in German VW style. After my “expert” 20 minute visual inspection, my heart was set on Penny…
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26: Magical Mongolian Mystery Tour invades Pomme de Terre
Every year, the New England Fencing Association hosts a fencing competition called the “Pomme de Terre”. On June 19, Team Magical Mongolian Mystery Tour sent a team to compete in the Men’s Foil Team event. The team consisted: …
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Introducing Sponsor: Best Western Queens Court Hotel
Best Western is one of the largest hotel chains in the world and we are proud to announce that one of the branches in New York have generously decided to sponsor us! Best Western Queens Court is located in Flushing, New York, a stone’s throw…
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Four days untill departure, seven days to launch
The clock is ticking, minutes and hours are winding away inching us closer to the departure. My flight out of New York is this coming Wednesday and the amount to do before then is immense. Since our last post, we’ve managed to finally purchase and…
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Launch Party & 2 days left
Thanks everyone for coming to the Launch Party! I feel absolutely lucky to have so many people support us. I look forward to return with an experience of a lifetime and some great stories to tell! Now with the launch party behind me, I have two da…
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Back to Berlin
Arrived in Berlin to mild temperature. Apparently I missed the 100+ degree heat wave - whew. Finally took the car for a joy ride and it’s a pretty sweet feeling. We have plenty of space in the back and front. I’m totally looking forwar…
