Team America
17Jan/12Off

has it really been that long?

wow! i'm quite behind on posting something since our return.

As some of you may know we are back and we successfully made it to the finish line. We left Goodwood Circuit on July 23, roughly 3:45pm (BST). We arrived at the finish line on Sept 11, at 1:12pm (ULAT). It took us 51 days. The car odometer reported us travelling 9642 miles, a few miles short of the 10,000 miles, but we probably have exceeded it if we had not taken a ferry across the Caspian Sea.

Anyways the point of this post is to claim how much raw video that we have. We had about 1TB of raw video and jpegs of the time lapse from Czech Republic to the finish line. Yesterday I just converted all the jpegs into movies which is looking to be about 200 minutes long. It's good to have taken a break and it's exciting to look at the stuff we have. I'm looking forward to show some of it in the near future.

I do have a few stories cooking that I never posted either. Hopefully I can include those when we post some videos.

see you soon!

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We've made it!!
Total Travel Time: 51 Days
Total Distance shown by Odometer: 9642 miles


The Mongol Rally is a UK-to-Mongolia, no back-up, no support, no set route adventure for charity - involving 15 countries and 10,000 miles' worth of mountains, deserts, bad roads, no roads, bandits, and various other pickles in comically unsuitable 1-litre cars.


Freedom costs a buck-oh-five. But we've heard that in Mongolia $1.05 also gets you a 3-story yurt mansion on the shores of Ögii Lake.

So off we go in our Fiat Panda. And since terrorism is officially over, Team America is now all about charity and liberation! Viva la Facebook!

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Facts about Mongolia

  • 19th largest and the most sparsely populated independent country in the world
  • 2.9 million people
  • 30% of the population are nomadic or semi-nomadic
  • predominant religion is Tibetan Buddhism
  • 20% of the population live on less than US$1.25 per day
  • economy is centered on agriculture and mining(like copper, coal, molybdenum, tin, tungsten, and gold)

Fun Facts about 2009 Rally

  • Number of Teams started: 359
  • Number of Teams to Finish: 281 (78%)
  • Number of Teams to Retire: 65 (18%)
  • Number of Teams M.I.A.: 13 (4%)
  • Number of Teams Retired before Mongolia (or M.I.A): 34 (9% – 44% all retirees)
  • Number of Teams Retired in Mongolia: 44 (12% – 56% all retirees)
  • Number of cars donated to AFD: 278 (80%)
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