The Eve of Greatness

We find ourselves now on the eve of the great adventure and know not what lies before us, only what lies behind us.

It has been a long journey to get to this point and yet a longer journey awaits us. It must be noted that never in the field of global exploration has so much been owed by so few to so many. To everyone who has helped get us here, we are thankful. But from here, we must go alone.

We go to explore, not to conquer.  We shall respect the ancient lands we travel through and will no doubt be marvelled by their hospitality. We will document our adventure, so those at home have some knowledge of what we see and experience.

The weeks ahead will be as long as they will be tough but this is no time for ease and comfort, it is time to dare and endure.  We will lose time, we will lose weight, we will lose engine parts and we will get lost. But we will not flag or fail. We shall drive until the end.  We shall drive in France, we shall drive round seas and oceans,  we shall complete our journey, whatever the cost may be.  We shall drive on beaches, we shall drive on the autobahn,  we shall drive through fields and streets, we shall drive in the deserts and the moutains and we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, the mini can take us no further, we will carry on, until in God's  good time we reach UlaanBattar.

Keep track of us as we travel and keep donating to the charities so all this is not done in vain.

Our business now is east.

Welcome to our Adventure Diary

The Swiss would've bought it, the Americans would have bombed it and the French would have surrendered to it. But not us. Here at AVBA HQ we merely sip from our Gin & Tonic and smile wryly as launch day marches towards us. Plenty of time to sleep when you're dead, so until then we're working round the clock to get things sorted.

This blog will be our 'On The Road Adventure Diary', which combined with the tracker and our text updates, should help you follow our progress as closely as if you were sat behind us. Only with more leg room and less of a petrol smell. To subscribe to the Blog click on the Subscribe link below, this will give you the option to add it to your toolbar as an RSS feed. I'm sure it works fine in Internet Explorer but like all good explorers, we only use Firefox.

8 Days to go now. Are we nervous you wonder? Of course not, The Empire wasn't built on nerves, it was built on stiff upper lips and a big flag!