Why?!

Well, we needed a challenge, don’t like routine and want to raise a truckload of cash for charity. This idea has festered for at least a year but it is only now that we have fought for time off work and got ourselves together that is possible.

For a long time we have been planning a mad dash to somewhere remote and obscure and this seemed to fit the bill perfectly. We did try, from Peru and Lincolnshire respectively to get a place on the Official Rally but with 60,000 people going for 200 places the odds weren’t so good.

But you can’t keep good men down, especially not true Overlanders with a taste for adventure, so we have decided to do our own thing to Mongolia and raise even more money!

And this is it:

For no other reason than lost sanity, we are up for the challenge of driving a very attractive and very red 19 year old 1.1L Ford Fiesta half way across the globe.

However there are a couple of minor hurdles we have to cross in order to succeed in this ludicrous mission, namely some 10,000 miles of road, plenty of which are not surfaced, at least five mountain ranges, two deserts, the Caspian Sea, Russian bureaucracy, bandits, jail, strange wildlife, and that is without running out of fuel, getting lost and breaking down in the middle of nowhere!

Hmmm – what do you reckon? Can we make it?

Well, with your help we think we can, and we’d like you join us on this adventure so please read on, check us, the car, the route and the Charities out and please, please sponsor us if you can!!!