Here we go ready or not, and it' definitely a little bit not !

They say life moves along at a fast pace and you just don’t notice.

Well I’d like to report that I have lost 4 weeks of my life and I’m not sure where it has gone.

Some highlights.

Isle of Wight. A place I think shouldn’t be part of the UK. Lovely climate, lovely scenery and lovely people, whoops I was just thinking that. We were lucky enough to spend 5 days in this idyllic place. Drinking beer at the Bundle, eating crab pasties at Steephill Cove and yes there is a steep hill out of the place. We also had a swim there which was , let me just say it was invigorating. We even coerced a few other tourists to enter the frigid waters of the the Atlantic ocean.

The fourth Phart arrived. Ron the mechanical messiah is here. We all squeezed into Alsison’s mums place much to her dismay. We also managed to organise stuff before Alison departed on her pre holiday holiday in the north of Scotland but Karma got her.

We were lucky enough to be invited to the Dragoman headquarters in Debanham to work on our cars. And boy they needed some work. The green car needed new wishbones, clutch, CV joints including drive shafts, Sump guard and we also had to build some kind of roof rack to carry fuel and spare wheels. The black car required a lot less stuff.

Ron worked tirelessly with me the not so good apprentice with Deb there to feed us and make sure we wash edbehind our ears :).

G and Charlie from Dragoman along with Nick and Dave from the workshop made us feel more than welcome . A great company with great people behind it. And I’d just like to say if you don’t want to do something as difficult as the Mongol Rally but would love the adventure then I’d recommend Dragoman’s Silk Road adventures.

The month has passed us by and now the eve of the start of our journey it is hard to believe it is actually happening. We have tested the car , tested our camping gear but now the biggest test of all. We are heading off on our 3 month adventure to test the personalities of the Travelling Pharts.

Love ewes all

All later

xx Pete, Deb,Alison and Ron