http://creepingblandness.com sponsored by Duracell! Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:30:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well the big news here is that we made it! As tweeted, we arrived in Ulaan Bataar on Thursday August 27th in the evening and made it to the finish line downtown at about 8pm. The last couple hundred kilometers in to UB is newly paved and feels so smooth and ... http://creepingblandness.com/2009/09/04/altai-to-ulaan-baatar/ An update from Andrew (apparently the internet was too slow to allow for blogging, but worked for email): I'm in Altai, Mongolia at the first internet cafe I've seen since leaving Russia a week ago. Most of the towns here don't have electricity reliably or at all. Even cell phone coverage ... http://creepingblandness.com/2009/08/25/update-from-mongolia/ I've gone back and put some pictures in with the last couple of posts, so make sure you go back and check them out! I was also going to put a bunch of Sumela pictures up here, but you might as well just take a look at them in situ in ... http://creepingblandness.com/2009/08/18/belated-picture-update/ After our lovely time in Samarkand with Aziza and her family, we hit the road north to Kazakhstan. We blew through Tashkent around lunch time and made it to the border mid-afternoon. We met up there with two Italian ralliers in a Fiat Panda that we've seen a few times ... http://creepingblandness.com/2009/08/15/samarqand-to-bishkek/ Well the team is in Samarqand, Uzbekistan safe and sound despite some anxiety on the part of those of our fans who are related to us. We haven't had internet in about 5 days and then only now discovered that our mobile tweets hadn't been going through to the website. We made it to ... http://creepingblandness.com/2009/08/09/baku-to-samarqand-in-a-nutshell/ Last you heard, our brave team was splitting up along gender lines to retrieve the car (boys) and the new plates (girls).  While the ladies were lounging in Istanbul, they got word that the boys had actually made it through the Greek border, and so they did not need to ... http://creepingblandness.com/2009/08/04/turkmenbashi-bound/ Creeping Blandness Prevention Group has been blogging at Outside Magazine, so everyone make sure you're checking out our posts there as well! Saturday night, when we tried to go through the border from Bulgaria to Turkey, we were informed that the plates on our car did not match the plates on ... http://creepingblandness.com/2009/07/30/update-and-check-out-outside/ Thursday morning we packed up the car, said goodbye to our host Ben in Vienna, and headed out for Budapest. The car was loaded up with our freshly purchased tires and roof rack on top, and a new stereo inside (the old one hadn't worked). The drive to Budapest was ... http://creepingblandness.com/2009/07/26/vienna-to-budapest-to-sofia/ Checked out of the Czechout party and headed to Vienna to see Ben. Stopped in a poppy field to take some glamour shots of Merdeith amongst the wildlife. [caption id="attachment_479" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Our car is so eco-friendly, it grows lichen"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_480" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Felicia in the poppies"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_481" align="aligncenter" width="300" ... http://creepingblandness.com/2009/07/25/vienna-and-beyond/ We made it to Klenova Castle near dusk and set up camp. We parked next to two Dutch guys and right down the way from some other Americans who were driving an ice-cream truck (The Rolling Cones). We put up the tent (Thank you, Sierra Designs!), chatted a ... http://creepingblandness.com/2009/07/21/day-3-bruchkobel-to-czechout-party/