Giles has been gallivanting around China for the last couple of weeks (actually he’s been scoping for us and having a well derserved break before the chaos starts!) and finally I have handed everything over at work (BIG thanks to my team for picking up everything!) and now I’m running around doing all those last minute things:
- haircut
- printing off insurance docs that finally came through last night
- double checking the packing list
- printing off the instructions for the Go Pro camera (many thanks to Simply Sports Cars for the loan of these two cameras that’ll allow us to create a video blog)
- restart the Garmin InReach subscription
- load the TravelSIM into a burner phone and check it works (try to find network code - whassat?)
- load VPN onto burner 😀
- test and charge the satellite phone
- buy essentials - coffee and whisky mainly
- test pack
- find it won’t all go in; unpack and try again
- final check
- drive to the airport on Monday (27th May) morning and arrive in Beijing on Monday evening
That’ll all be simple then!
See you on the other side - probably in Ulan Batar in Mongolia as neither Blogger nor Faceplant are allowed in China 😀 Unless that VPN works better than expected!
Just a few reminders:
1/. The daily reports from Syd Stelio, photographs by Gerard Brown and the Spot tracker (we are car #77) will all be on the Endurance Rally Association website at www.endurorally.com
2/. We continue to raise funds for Beyond Blue and the Cancer Council through the giving links at the bottom of the page - every dollar is very gratefully received, towards our target of $1 per kilometre we’ll drive (so about 15,000!) thank you! and
3/. We will also try to keep Gidget's Facebook page up to date as much as we can here: https://www.facebook.com/austin.healey.73113
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