time to enjoy this great country. It would seem that the Mongol Rally
is seen as a good thing by everyone we have met here.
The kids line the tracks on the routes in to town and seem barely
able to contain themselves with excitement. Within seconds of pulling
up, it's often difficult to open the doors because of the swarms of
children.
Anyhow, yesterday we found ourselves in a small settlement of roughly
25 gers and i felt it was time to get the ballons out. YCR gave us a
ton of the things and it took only one of them to be shown how to blow
it up before letting the air out to make a screeching noise before the
town was full of screaming kids with screaming baloons.
We left pretty soon after.
We are currently around 300km from the finish line in UB and you
know....it's looking like we may just pull this thing off!
Our determination to cover big distances these past few days has taken
it's toll on everyones sanity. Giddyness sweeps the nightime camp
faster than swine flu, demonstrated in the attached snap.
This morning was a bit calmer. As we were packing up camp a man on
horseback appeared from over a hill and rode down to take a look. Beth
( team Mainiacs, USA ) ended up going for a drive on the kind mans
horse. Keith gave him some honey he had bought of a Beekeeper in the
ukraine and I offed him a big handfull of our Yorkshire tea. He was
very happy. The honey is quite probably very radioactive but the tea
will do him nothing but good.
The gravity of our achievement is starting to be realised along with a
sinking feeling that this is all coming to a close..............for
the time being ;)
