Driver Comments #7

The poll is over. You wanted it. You get it. Here we go with some more comments, while our boys are sweating under the Uzbekian sun at 38°C.

• Ice Cream Adventure
  Location Bukhara(Uzbekistan) 17:13 on 06-08-2007
  driving blind down Uzbekistan 'motorway'. Uzbek border £0 and no hassle! Thermometer topped out at 55C, then exploded. Immodium supplies running low...
• Muswell Mongols
  Location Bukhara(Uzbekistan) 15:05 on 06-08-2007
  just given a lift to 2 Uzbek border guards into town. They bought us breakfast, petrol and cleared road blocks for us.
• Two Loose Screws
  Location Aktau(Kazakhstan) 11:21 on 06-08-2007
  spent 9 hours in customs getting stamps from various officials including a vet. Didnt give the ok until she reached the back of our teeth. Daka
• Perseverance
  Location Aktau(Kazakhstan) 07:31 on 06-08-2007
  finally met back up! Typically i arrived first despite azeri's concerns. Met a girl at the airport and stayed at hers last night. Dropped at port this morning. Last 5 hours waiting for car in customs... Should be on the road in 30. Finally!
• Muswell Mongols
  Location Turkmenabat(Turkmenistan) 06:40 on 06-08-2007
  Reached the Uzbek border at 7 am after driving all night...after getting several bits of paper stamped several times we are free at 11.30. Only the British railway is less efficient!
• Land of Down
  Location Ulaanbaatar(Mongolia) 04:36 on 06-08-2007
  We made it! Second car here, first car from London. Welcomed by a cheering crowd at Dave's Place. 15 days on the road just to hop on train to Beijing!
• Rustbucket Express
  Location Mashhad(Iran) 15:53 on 05-08-2007
  Denied entry to Turkmen as it was last day of visa. In Mashhad trying to figure out what the flip to do. Afghanistan maybe?
• The Crimson Monkeys
  Location Orenburg(Russia) 14:42 on 05-08-2007
  heading on towards ufa tonight.Keep getting stopped by police but we have a magic bit of paper which tells them we are doing it for charity which works!
• ARE WE THERE YET?
  Location Aktobe(Kazakhstan) 13:45 on 05-08-2007
  reached kazak. had a vodka drinking contest with the mafia the other nite and had all loose change nicked by a coin collecting border guard. Bizzare
• Muswell Mongols
  Location Ashgabad(Turkmenistan) 13:15 on 05-08-2007
  crossed into Turkmenistan. 12 bits of paper, 47 official stamps. First drink for a week. 5* hotel, bugged rooms, watchers following you. All good but hungover
• The Payne Train
  Location Unknown 13:14 on 05-08-2007
  just got through border everyone very friendly guards gave us apples and small money just got cake from wedding party as well!
• Bottom Gear
  Location Unknown 13:06 on 05-08-2007
  it's 10 o'clock at night and we've just arrived at the border with Mongolia which opens at 9am. 11 hours to go.
• Perseverance
  Location Baku(Azerbaijan) 19:58 on 04-08-2007
  f*@#ing s*#t bollocks. Stuck in baku. No car. No teammate. No rally peoply. No nothing. Mistake by kazakh embassy and azeri border guards won't let me get there an hour early. Thank god i packed my brown underpants.
• Team Crazy Fools
  Location Baku(Azerbaijan) 18:39 on 04-08-2007
  and we're off! Finally leaving this god-forsaken bribe-infested place. Bring on Boratland!
• Team Crazy Fools
  Location Baku(Azerbaijan) 17:10 on 04-08-2007
  finally on board ferry to kazakhstan despite visas having EXPIRED. 1st real bribe is get out of jail free card. When we actually leave is anyones guess.
• Team Bad Idea
  Location Rovaniemi(Finland) 14:23 on 04-08-2007
  finally escaped sweden and now reindeer sandwiches
• Horn OK Please
  Location Bukhara(Uzbekistan) 09:42 on 04-08-2007
  Absolute result! We bumped into a german polo convoy in bukhara and they gave us their spare rad! All we have 2 do now is replace our broken suspension!
• Ice Cream Adventure
  Location Turkmenbashi(Turkmenistan) 03:16 on 04-08-2007
  2g hours trying to get into turkmenistan. 2 hours sleep as usual, now three days to get the hell out. Turkmen border police offered us heroin!
• Team Bad Idea
  Location Sundsvall(Sweden) 18:14 on 03-08-2007
  rescued from disaster by swedish mechanics at last!
• French Touch
  Location Unknown 16:17 on 03-08-2007
  Georgie. Pluie diluvienne. Nous prenons l'eau, 1cm dans la voiture. En route pour l'azerbaijan. 27 h de route dont 6h de sommeil depuis ankara.
• Le Mongs 24
  Location Lviv(Ukraine) 16:04 on 03-08-2007
  left lviv this morning heading for odessa. Jeep smoking and drinking more than deliquent teenager...
• Starsky and Clutch
  Location Unknown 14:11 on 03-08-2007
  ps how is christina doing?