Genesis

In the beginning, God created four, maybe five, fine individuals to partake in the most adventurous car rallies of them all, the Mongol Rally.

The group went by the names of Alex "Buzz" Corp, Shane "Shane" Gill, "Gorgeous" George Pugh and Alex "Gorilla" Tominey.

In the first of the 10 months they had to prepare for the race, the group bought an ambulance from ebay and then rested.

In the second of the 10 months they had to prepare for the race, they also rested, but found this funny video on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NijwK99OO04.

In the remaining 8 months they have to prepare for the race they pledged to get their arses into gear and begin tarting up their ambulance and start raising much needed pieces of gold which they can trade to buy sound systems, break pads and an instruction manual on how to fix an eight-year old ambulance.

On deciding on a route to take, their opinions differed widely. Some wanting to go the reverse way round, some through wartorn regions, some on a ridiculous detour through scandinavia and africa, and some through the fine wine regions of southern europe, where we would endeavour not to pick the forbidden fruit in the vineyard of Mr. Pinot Grigio.

One thing uniting the brave quartet as they embark on this epic journey was the steely determination to make it out to Ulaan Bataar, overcoming the many obstacles just like Noah overcame the floods...

Glad tidings,

GKD