Adventure Timeline
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The Adventure Continues….
Ever since returning from Mongolia, i’ve been searching. I’ve been searching for a reason to not take another cross continental ridiculous road trip. I’ve been looking pretty hard. Top on the list of most people is that “job” thing. Okay people,…
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To Timbuktu?
600 dollars. What can we do with 600 dollars? Maybe a month’s rent? Perhaps a netbook or even an Ipad? Plane ticket to Europe? Several tanks of gas? Well, apparently for six crisp Benjamin’s, one can secure a spot on the 2011 Timbuktu challenge. T…
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High Tea with the Adventurists
Last year, pre mongol rally, high tea with the adventurists sounded pointless, frivolous, and totally pompous. Why would anyone fly out to Colorado for a spot of tea? Ridiculous. But post rally? high tea with the adventurists meant a gathering of …
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The Team is Four Strong
How would you decide to join me on the Timbuktu Rally? How well would you need to know me and my team? How much time would you need to think about it? A 3 week journey in a moving tin can is no joke. Well apparently Mike, whom I met at the Adventu…
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"How did you get into all of this, Mike?"
I assume you want the long story… Once upon a time, I dreamt of driving a motorized rickshaw across India. Let me explain. You see, there’s this group of well-intentioned madmen up in England who call themselves The Adventurists. What they do …
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The Vitaly Ambulance VS. The Agawam Ambulance
A couple weeks ago we ventured up to Agawam, Massachusetts, a rural New England town just across the border from Connecticut. Stephen had found a promising vehicle on ebay that failed to meet its reserve price, so he contacted the dealer and did s…
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The Vehicle
Now that we have a team, a destination and a mission, alls we need is a ride to take us across the Sahara. We need a vehicle that announces our presence when we rolled into a Berber village. When I think of this American team, the first thing that…
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New York Plates
So we officially bought the ambulance on Saturday, but never in my wildest dreams could I imagine that we would have plates by today, Wednesday. Honestly, words cannot describe my enthusiasm. With the daunting task of transferring an out of state …
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Reserve Your Team T-Shirt!
It’s high time we got some t-shirts! We’re going to be offering them for $20, with 100% of the proceeds going towards ambulance donation funding. There are lots of hurdles to overcome in donating a vehicle to Africa, as we’re learning. Things like…
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The Visa Challenge
Today, I officially kicked off my visa challenge. Travelling UK, France, Spain, Morocco, Senegal and Mali, I am the only member on the team who needs visas for all the countries…
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The Visa Challenge ...continued
So I promised I would have many more stories to tell. Here you go. Apparently USPS “missent” my UK visa application, containing my passport and other important doc…
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Ambulance goes to the Mechanic
We dropped off the ambulance at Ivy Lane Auto Services in Tenafly a couple weeks ago to a skeptical mechanic. The look on his face said it all. I’ll never forget that blank “What on earth have you done” look he gave me. Naturally my inner dialog r…
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Dakar Challenge Decals!
Timbuktu Challenge Launch Packet arrived from the Dakar Challenge guys. Included are two books, a couple DVD’s and 2 awesome decals to slap on our car. I can smell the magical adventure dust. 
