Long story short - the posts from 2011 are from the original attempt with my friends to go to the "Race" group of the Bamako rally, to which I (D, real name David ;)) didn't manage to go in the end. Any posts starting October '12 are from the 2012 attempt with me and the wife :)
Do note, I use all kinds of colorful language, and am politically incorrect. You have been warned.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Highway!

Haven't seen this in days :)

Looking for...

The Mako Hagyma festival. No luck so far :)

Dashing through the...

Fields,
In a big Toyota truck,
Killing all the plants,
And pissing off the natives....

Please tell me

We did NOT jus cross a non-Schengen
International border without stopping?

Oh, yeah. We did.

Whoops. TURN!

Look

At that beautiful soil! On the windscreen.

If you leave...

Your phone in the tent, your punishemnt will be to put the tent back together on your own. Quechqua - 2minutes to place, 15 minutes to put back together.

We're all going to...

Getting ready...

To add to the green-house effect. If you believe in that sort of thing, which we don't.

Foie gras...

On Zsemle anyone?

Good night world!

We're back tomorrow.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Dinner!

On the road again!

122km until nap.

Oh look!

Still at the station.

Aaand...

Two iPads, one laptop, two iPhones, one Blackberry, a WiFi 3G modem (I need to rename the newtork to Tory...), a satellite tracker and a fridge full of beer... I mean soft drinks and chilli. And some foie gras. And 10 zsemle. We won't starve if we're stuck here.

While we wait...

Let me introduce you to the inside view of Tory. Three GPSes, one amp, one camera and CB, and still no steering fluid.

Will we...

See the onion festival?

Repair!

We think. They're arguing in hungarian.

Moon!

Well, what else are you going to do while waiting for the car to get fixed?

The mechanic...

Has arrived!

Tory...

Apparently started her life as a delivery van for "Franky's", out of Esssen, a Restaurant - Bar - Beer garden - Catering enterprise. She's still leaking though.

Goodbye!

Power steering fluid. Now looking for a gas station.

Learning of the day.

Saturday, 10th September is a market day in many Hungarian villages.

The Blair Witch Project.

As demonstrated by mr. S.

Dirty girl!

Well, she would be, wouldn't she?

How do you know you're in the ...

Middle of nowhere? One Mojito, 900 HUF!

Foood!

Lunch break

Pretty!

Whoops.

We ended up at a prison.

Get off!

The road that is.

Found it!

The plate that is. And, dinner is foie grass on zsemle, followed by chilli. Do we have class, or what!

Fishing, anyone?

Lost...

The front plate.

Corn, pt. 2

Now under the car.

Do not...

Drive behind a speeding 4x4 off-road.

Corn!

Lots of corn.

The natives are...

Decidedly unhappy with the ammount of dust we put in the air. They blocked the road a few checkpoints back. And put tires on the road. To stop BIG SUVs. That didn't work. Mwahaaha!

The view.

This is what we'll use...

When we grow up.

Little green...

Pringles machine!

Almost ready!

Competition

Tory

Hello beautifull!

Friday, September 9, 2011

Where on Earth is...

If you want to track the real-time status of the car - and hopefully, also of us, that's not a problem... :)

Click here to track us!

Why yes, we are a high-tech team, thank you for noticing.Now, keep in mind, it's not completely real-time, but it should at the very least give you an idea where we are. And make sure to switch the view to "Satellite" tomorrow - after all, "Where we're going, we don't need roads!"
(Two beers to who ever places that quote - I'm looking for the movie title only. ;))

What? Who?... EH?

Three guys.
One Toyota called "Tory" (no, not the one in the picture, you'll see Tory tomorrow).
800 kilometers.
And one bottle of Unicum.

What could go wrong?