Well the first & second parts of our journey are history;
Edmonton to Vancouver THEN Peking to Paris
About 9000 miles so far.
Our old Chevy, which we fondly call our fat old girl friend has worked great
other than a broken track bar in Mongolia which forced us to break out the lawn
chairs & beer for a couple of hours. It was not so bad, Monte & Phil
arrived in their Chrysler Airflow with lunch & gratefully shared lunch in
exchange for cold beer.
Other than that, a turn signal flasher & an oil
change got us to Paris. The whole adventure ( ENDURANCE RALLY )which is very
true, had us up most mornings at 6.00 am, most days ended late as the bar was
always full & alive with stories of the day.
The day we arrived in Paris
was surreal, didn't know whether to happy or sad. Anyways we arrived to a huge
crowd of onlookers,friends & family got out of the car drank champagne, lots
of congratulations amongst the teams, passed the keys off to Cars UK &
walked away ( sure hope they picked it up ). That evening at the ball dressed
to the nines in our best we were presented with the spirit of the rally award.
I guess our attitude, our willingness to help, our trunk full of parts &
tools, the cold beer had something to do with that. We were truly honored.
The next leg of
our journey will start in Halifax hopefully the middle of Sept & will take
us across Canada back to Edmonton, this should bring the the total mileage to
15,000 miles. Anyways we are looking forward to the east in the fall &
meeting more people along the way.
-Kim &
Len
We have two months to prep up for the last lag of Kim and Lens Greatest Adventure .. YET
Amsterdam -56 days later - time to go home (stupid reality)
