Has anyone seen my shoe? Posted August 6, 2006 Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 nice....can't beat the good'ole loop the loop. Better then going though Iran or Finland (for two very different reasons) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat hudson Posted August 6, 2006 Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 why is finland bad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Has anyone seen my shoe? Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 Ill demonstrate with the use of a simple diagram.Toms route is in red, finland route in blue.[attachmentid=6355] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janson Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 But he could have enjoyed the beautiful countryside of Sweden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Has anyone seen my shoe? Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 (edited) But he could have enjoyed the beautiful countryside of Sweden. Through the windows of his fiesta?No Edited August 7, 2006 by Has anyone seen my shoe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 Not bad, in south kazakh going north, should take a few days its huge! Minor car problems but still running Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan6061 Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 Car's gunna go bang soon... Nice one lads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzo Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 Sounds like one hell of a comical adventure is being had.Do you always sound like your in the Famous Five? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plainlazy84 Posted August 9, 2006 Report Share Posted August 9, 2006 Do you always sound like your in the Famous Five? mostly, yes you'll have to excuse me i usually type shit- infact i usually chat shit in real life too. I blame it on my life as an office monkey, its driving me mad. Anyway... Any estimates when Tommy might complete this comical caper of an expedition? () Wonder if he will encounter any Borat styled Kahzakstani's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzo Posted August 9, 2006 Report Share Posted August 9, 2006 Any estimates when Tommy might complete this comical caper of an expedition? () Wonder if he will encounter any Borat styled Kahzakstani'sRaaaather David! That'd be wizard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Cable Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 LMAO!!! i just had rice pudding come out of my nose!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si-man Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 LMAO!!! i just had rice pudding come out of my nose!! Hahahaha!!!!!!!Awww if only you had a cam going (for some reason or another! ) haha!Thats legendary, only ever had milk come out mine (was drinking it, didnt just randomly leak milk lol) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_Tupman Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 There miles behind everyone else on that map! They been partying to much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted August 19, 2006 Report Share Posted August 19, 2006 Ahoy hoy all.Computers eh. Nearly forgot how to use one, which is nice.Anyway, I'm currently typing from Ulaan Bator, Mongolia (Cant even spell it..) - f'in (sorry mum) pleased with myself.Got a raging hangover, drank a wreckless amount of vodka last night at the finishing party.Thanks for all the good lucks The car is still going somehow, the only thing that properly broke was the starter motor, rather inappropriatly happened in a kazakh police check point, so we had to push it through. A tow, 18 quid and a spannering later by a huge russian smoking an endless supply of fags, and it was fixed again. Luckily it broke about 5km from the nearest town, not bad seeing as there were no others within about 300 miles.Only other time we seriously thought the car was broke was about 2 miles from the garage I just wrote about, the heater stopped working (we had it on all the time through kazakhstan to stop the engine overheating) and the temperature went right up. After a look in the engine (not sure why seeing as we still no nothing about cars) we decided to turn around and go back to the garage. On the way back it started working again, so we turned around again to continue our mission - heater stopped working. Turned back again. Heater started working etc etc. In the end we figured out, because it was so windy that when driving with the wind, it was blowing the hot air back into the engine. Driving into the wind it was fine.Other minor problems- smashed front head lamp- smashed rally lamp thing- lots of dents in the floor of the car- one popped wheel (dented the rim)- clicking sound from front hubs when turning tight corners (at slow speed)Car has taken a hell of a beating really. Roads in kazakhstan (which for the record is absolutly massive - about the size of western europe) are terrible. Literally 3 or 4 foot deep pot holes, and about 10 foot wide. So bad that its easier to drive on the sandy tracks to the side of it.Many, many run ins with the police around the place. Russian filth are particularly bad.Anyway, I'm about to pass out in the heat and this computer lark is confusing me.Back in maybe a week or 2, really have no idea how to get home yet. Probably a train to beijing and a flight home maybe. Who knows.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted August 19, 2006 Report Share Posted August 19, 2006 Back in maybe a week or 2, really have no idea how to get home yet. Probably a train to beijing and a flight home maybe. Who knows.. Good work Tom, job well done. Hope you enjoyed it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted August 19, 2006 Report Share Posted August 19, 2006 Sounds like a good laugh You should drive back now seen as you managed to get there so quickly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat hudson Posted August 19, 2006 Report Share Posted August 19, 2006 awesome man. sounds like a good trip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trials Punk Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 Well done mate.Glad to here you made it, hope its been an entertaining journey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBProductions Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 Big respect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 Congrats man!! good luck getting home!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plainlazy84 Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Back in maybe a week or 2, really have no idea how to get home yet. Probably a train to beijing and a flight home maybe. Who knows..Thats possibly (definitly) the greatest few words I've read on here for a long while Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 Cheers guys!I'm getting on a train later to the mongolian border, takes 16 hours or something. Then a mini bus over the border, then another 10hr train to beijing. Then after an unknown quantity of time, hopefully at least a few days, we should be on a plane heading back to heathrow. Looking forward to seeing China Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Booth Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 Well done that man! hope its been as fun as it sounds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManxTrialSpaz Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 So, what happens to the car? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haydon_peter Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 So, what happens to the car?It stays in Mongolia and is auctioned off to raise more charity money... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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