http://www.teamboar.co.uk Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:40:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Drove into Ulaanbaatar at 4pm yesterday, then celebrated on the finish line for the evening. More photos and stuff to come soon! http://www.teamboar.co.uk/2008/09/06/we-made-it/ p>Got to Almaty, Kazakstan! Our car is ok, all the better after being filled with petrol! We did actually spend 2 hours tinkering with just about every part of the engine before realising that she had actually ran out of petrol! This was after our car engine cut out when ... http://www.teamboar.co.uk/2008/08/22/almaty/ We made it to Sworde Teppa in Tajikistan! Tajikistan threw some interesting challenges at us - firstly we arrived at a bridge crossing at 10am after following a dirt track for 2 hours, only to find that the bridge was closed until 7pm that evening! A local restaurant owner let us ... http://www.teamboar.co.uk/2008/08/10/tajikistan-sworde-teppa/ Made it to Uzbekistan and met up with loads of teams in Bukhara. Currency here is worthless and our pizza meal (yeah, actually going to an italian restaurant in uzbekistan!) came to  $15 each, which was the equivalent of a whole table with piles full of Uzbek Sum. We convoyed from the border with streching cred and the gobi ambulance (google them to see their sites), found a hotel and texted a load of other teams including the allegro, spank the money in their dodgy volvo, the highly painted SJ and anotherr micra team. Taking a rest day here today to relax as the past 2 weeks have been pretty hectic! Turkmenistan was very hot and dusty. Drove through a sandstorm. Stretching cred needed to clean their air filter half way through. Iran was awesome and the people were really friendly - everyone would wave and beep at us on the road as it is so rare to see a foreign car. Got stopped once at an army checkpoint and had to show passports but no big deal. Turkey was a long haul, 1300 miles in a single country! Camped at a beach campsite one night and stunned the guy in the shop by buying 30 bottles of beer! http://www.teamboar.co.uk/2008/08/04/uzbekistan/ We`re in Belgrade, Serbia. Got stung 130 euros car insurance on the border. Stayed in Belgrade last night in a hostel with secure parking - secure parking was the priority for us, what with our less than low profile jeep with boat on the roof and stretching cred`s stretched micra! Carrying ... http://www.teamboar.co.uk/2008/07/23/on-the-road/ We`ve relaunched our fundraising site at www.justgiving.com/boar as we were concerned about the security of the willwemakeit.com site recommended by the organisers. Please rock over to just giving and, er, just give us some cash! Donations go 100% to charities in Mongolia (this site is for Christina Noble Childrens Foundation) and ... http://www.teamboar.co.uk/2008/06/30/fund-raising-new/ Lots of VERY exciting things have been happening to Team Boar recently, many of them in Wales. Sam (the car) got a bit of abuse this weekend when we took her off roading in Wayellleeesss to meet up with some of the other teams on the rally. We ended up spending ... http://www.teamboar.co.uk/2008/06/27/latest-news/ And here she is, complete with raft, roof bars and a highly orange bull bar! http://www.teamboar.co.uk/2008/06/16/the-raft-has-arrived/ Fitted the auxiliary electrical distribution board, which will power the fog lights, mains inverter, interior lights, CB radio and high power 12v items. Its powered direct from the battery using very fat cables! And this rather pimp extension socket. You can also see the new racing style power control console ... http://www.teamboar.co.uk/2008/06/09/an-exciting-weekend-working-on-the-car/ We are in the final stages of acquiring a white water raft to take out to Sworde Teppa in Tajikistan! Sworde Teppa have given us a list of items, which we are trying to acquire. Its a bit like a scavenger hunt! So we`re picking up a white water raft, and rather ... http://www.teamboar.co.uk/2008/06/01/the-white-water-raft-is-coming/