Mongol Rally 2009|Team Leopardy|UK to Mongolia

....Team Leopardy Started the Rally from the Goodwood Motor Circuit at about 2.30pm July 18th 2009. By the end of day 1 they had made it into France... Day 2 they set out across Germany... Day 3 they made it though Germany in the Czech Republic where all the team converged for a party... Day 4 they made it into Slovakia... day 5 they made it into Serbia... Day 6 they made it into Greece with temperatures reaching 40c... Day 7 8 9 10 they crossed Turkey... Day 11 12 13 14 15 hey Crossed Iran into Turkmenistan... Day 16 17 they mad it through Turkmenistan to Uzbekistan... Day 18 they made it almost across Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan... That night Paul was taken ill and later in the middle of the night rushed to hospital, where they suspected that he had appendicitis... they decided to transfer him as soon as possible to international hospital, some 100 miles away for the operation, but his condition greatly worsened in the night and they were left with no option but to operate, it was indeed appendicitis and they removed his appendix. Paul spent Day 19 20 21 22 recovering and was flown home on Day 23... Mario continued the rally alone... Day 24 25 26 27 Mario made it across Kazakhstan minus one exhaust and plus two new rear suspension socks replaced and made it into Russia... Where he had to wait for the border to open and camped in the mountains, which Mario said was freezing on Days 28 29 30 31 32... Day 33 Mario set off through the Gobi Dessert on the south of Mongolia on Days 33 34 35 36... Day 37 Leopardy the car broke down in the dessert and Mario was towed over 200kms out of the dessert by a bus to a Garage... they could not fix Leopady and Mario had to abandon the car on day 38 and travel the rest of to 200km journey to the finish at Ulaan Baartar by bus... Mario Made it to the finish on the 25th of August, so close yet so far for poor Leopardy no Doubt fixed and transporting goats by now. Mario attended the finish party and return home by plane. Paul went back to work in late September but suffer some complications from the operation but is recovering... The Team raised what they had hoped to for The Snow Leopard Trust & the Official Charities. See the teams daily progress on the Progress Reports Page and the Team Photos on the Gallery Page. *** This is the Team Leopardy Signing Off 2009 ***

Paul & Mario Team Leopardy

What are we all about? Fundraising for charity and insane adventure!

We are participating in the Goodwood - UK to Ulaanbaatar - Mongolia Rally, there is no fixed route, you go the way you want, see parts of the world you have not seen before and probably breakdown in many of them!

The whole idea behind this is to raise bucket loads of cash for some really good charities, we in particular love Snow Leopards and have a excellent charity that we will be donating to, hence the team name ‘Leopardy’ also it rhymes with Jeopardy which may be apt! See the Fundraising page if you would like to donate/sponsor us in some way.

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Mario and Paul.