It is 9:54pm. I am sitting in the coffee area on Deck 8 of a gigantic ferry charging my phone using a European power converter. I drove the ambulance into the ferry…
Late Saturday Night, 12/17/11 You wouldn’t think that a one hour time difference would affect your internal clock all that much, but the past two days have been more like one big continuous day. Leaving London yesterday turned into a day…
A night in France. We just got off the ferry at Calais, France from Dover,UK. I was driving and started looking for signs to Paris. For the first time I realized l was in France when the signs read ‘sortie’, ‘rappel’. Myself nor my teammates know …
We picked up a hitch hiker in London.I met Sasha Sherbakov while I was traveling through Irkutsk, Russia last year during the rally. Turned out he was living in London and heade…
Team Last Responders had its first brush with disaster last night, Dec 17th. Since leaving Paris early Saturday morning, the weather ranged from cold drizzle to miserable down pour. At about 9PM local time, I was behind the wheel and maybe 50 km…
Monday Morning, 12/19/11 Yesterday I woke up in Spain. I had actually gotten what you could consider to be a full night’s sleep, though it was on the ambulance’s be…
As I write this post we are currently cruising down from the Pyrenees halfway across Spain on the way to Tarifa, still about 6 hours down route. So much has already gone on during this trip that there’s a lot of mental traffic going on tryin…
We reached Tarifa last night at around 5AM, exhausted, and especially dirty after not having showered in more than four days. The organizers were good enough to book two nights at the Mason de Sancho, which in my book was pretty luxurious. …