Author Archives: Vogel

Sorry for the lack of updates. We promise they will come, but in the meantime I wanted to remind everyone that we send daily tweets from our SpotGPS to the Basic Cruising Twitter Account. You can also keep track of … Continue reading →

Craziness. This. Road. Is. Epic.

Yesterday we hit the beach at the Black Sea in Bulgaria at a place called Sunny Beach. We relaxed for a while and went for a swim. When we went back to our car, this is what we found: We’ve … Continue reading →

Yesterday was a slow but much needed day. We finally managed to buy all our remaining items in our shopping list which included 2 jerry cans, a shovel, sleeping pads, and a small cooking stove. We replaced a couple of … Continue reading →

Yesterday we took it easy, waking up at around 11am with plans to tour Budapest for a bit and then head off to Romania. At the hostel we were staying, we were offered a cheap laundry service which we agreed … Continue reading →

The Gazelle has uploaded some pictures to Facebook, which is honestly the best way to publish them. Check them out Here.

I’m trying to edit these in the road but I didn’t have the proper software so it was nearly impossible to do so. I believe I’ve acquired what I need now so hopefully better videos will follow! Anyway, you can … Continue reading →

Czechout Party Yesterday we spent the night at The Klenova Castle where the Mongol Rally organizers threw a Czechout party attended by most teams. We arrived late, as usual, but we were greeted by teams screaming “the horn, the horn!” … Continue reading →

Yesterday we drove about 850 kilometers from Belgium to München, Germany. With an initial ETA of 8PM, we were first delayed due to a closed highway in Luxembourg (pushing our ETA to 10PM), and then we continued to be delayed … Continue reading →

Here’s a general update for everyone: Thursday night I took a direct flight from San Francisco to London. At about 3pm I was picked up by our (still nameless) Fiat Punto and the rest of the Basic Cruising Team. For … Continue reading →