Left Mainz today and headed over the the airport in Frankfurt to pick up the rest of our team: Helen and Mark. We then had to immediately start driving to Hungary in order to give us a day before the start of the race.
After passing out for a couple of hours in the back of the car, Helen volunteered to take over the driving for a short bit to get a feel for it. She then managed to randomly get us into a parking lot of a closed down amusement park.
It's only been a few days with the Land Rover and it's already developed several issues. First, it's too tall to fit in any parking garage, then the battery died, then the bolts fell out of the brakes, then all of a sudden on our drive to Budapest today, it seemed to start overheating.
...over and over and over again.
None of us could figure it out. Then again, none of know too much about cars either. Maybe we should have thought about that before coming here. Too late now! As I was dozing off in the backseat, I finally heard Clint yell something along the lines of "I see a leak!" I'm starting to believe that there IS a higher power out there and it has a really stupid sense of humor.
Didn't really help much, either, that we kept stopping in human-centipede territory to check the car. Can you see the road in this photo? Neither could we.
Flew through Austria without any trace of us ever having been there and arrived in Budapest around 4am to find several other participants' vehicles parked on the street, including a hearst! Time to set our alarms for just a few hours later.
We have to fix the car.
We have to fix the car.
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