Today was surprisingly productive. All 4 of us were just waiting for something to explode or go wrong in some horrible way, but everywhere we went, people helped us more than we could have ever expected. We had to go to one of the rally's sponsors today to load our GPS with the routes and maps. We sheepishly asked if they knew of any good mechanics in town and it just so happened the woman we were talking to owned a Land Rover herself and sent us over to her mechanic who seemed to work out of his house:
Yet another photo of The Disco with its hood up. Apparently our coolant was just leaking. Stupid easy fix.
We decided to try our luck even further and we asked the same people if they knew where we could get help installing our CB radio (because of course, we hadn't done that yet either). They gave us another address and we went on our way to another random person's house in another random residential neighborhood. But not without stopping at a cowboy-esque steak house along the way.
That's right, they had kangaroo steak.
We're getting quite a different tour of Europe than usual. Mostly people's garages.
Finally got some proper sightseeing in this evening.
Let's see how much sleep we can all get tonight. The rally begins at 8am tomorrow and we're all very pumped. Clint keeps repeating that Miss Hungary 2005 will be handing out some sort of paperwork. Sweet. I'm more excited about shaking the hand of the mayor of some random little city outside Budapest who will be hosting a "grand tea party" for all of us at their local gas station. Should be interesting.
Watch the start live (apparently) from http://www.BudapestBamako.org/
We're #94 and are called the California Dirt Shrews. Clint picked the name...
Good going California Dirt Shrews!
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