Fritz and Lang crossed over into Mongolia shortly after 8am on Sunday morning. The day was to include 123 miles off-road driving and end with tent camping. Rainbow Arch marks the border between Mongolia and China. _______________________________________________________ Day 3 Rankings: Fritz and Lang are now ranked Bronze coming in today at 16 hours and 9 minutes. Total Overall time is 47 hours 18 minutes. They are in 58th position overall and 26th in their class. Their goal is to finish and avoid... (more...)
Day 3 Sun 12th Sept – Erenhot to Sainshand (Mongolia) – 214 km
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Day 2 Sat 11th Sept – Daihai to Erenhot (China) – 508 km
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Fritz and Lang are still doing well. Very busy and putting in very long days. They have not yet had time to send in an update (easy to understand considering they traveled for nearly 23 hours today!). Here is some more general information from the event coordinators as well as a blog posting on Day 2 from a fellow team. __________________________________________________ Day 2 Rankings: Fritz and Lang are now Ranked Bronze coming in today at 22 hours and 41 minutes. Total Overall time is... (more...)
Day 1 Fri 10th Sept – Peking to Daihai (China) – 398 km
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Day 1 of the rally has come and gone. 398 kms down! While we wait for them to find a few spare moments to share their experiences with us I thought I’d call your attention to the day’s report from the event organizer. I also have a few photos courtesy of Lang’s wife, Linda. (Thanks Linda!) One last look before the rally begins. Forbidden City Great Wall ______________________________________________________ Day 1 Rankings Fritz & Lang got GOLD by making the drive... (more...)
Navigating through Beijing
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Big day today. We picked our car up at a warehouse near the docks. Our car started up on the very first crank! Using trip notes called Tulips¹ we navigated about 23 miles in one of the world’s busiest cities back to our hotel. Drivers along the way were honking, taking photos and waving all the way. Pretty amazing. Our 15 minutes of fame in Beijing. We missed the last turn and had to turn around and find our way back. Not a good scenario believe me. We stopped to get our bearing because... (more...)