London

After hearing about the freezing temperatures back home, it doesn't seem like we picked to bad of a time to leave! London has been great, we have been lucky enough to stay with a fantastic English family the Gregsons! They have been more then helpful with us trying to find our way around and getting stuff done in this HUGE city! There always seems to be something going on over here, a little different than good 'ol Corvallis. Sunday was a very eventful day and marked the start of the Africa Rally 09! We found our way out to the Top Gear Test track (big thanks to the Gregsons!) for the start of the rally! The Rally is back on with the "adjusted" route of basically just skipping Mauritania due to the Extreme Terrorism Activity. Now that our car has finally made it across the pond to London we are loading it back on a boat and shipping it down below Mauritania to Dakar Senegal. Once it is all cleared through customs and back on its way Keegan and I will grab our back packs and start on our original route by foot. The plan now is to basically just do the first leg of the rally by foot. We are planning to back pack through France, down through Spain and into Morocco. Then we will travel around through Morocco until our car gets into Dakar, we will then catch a flight to Senegal and meet up with the Sami. The idea is to then finish the Rally and end up in Kribi Cameroon safe and sound and with our car. As we have already learned this is probably not what will happen at all and our plan will most likely change 100 more times before its over, but that is it as of now! Once we are out on the road we will try to get into more of a consistent rhythm of Blogging and keeping you up to date, but until then! Happy Holidays!!

-Tate

For more information about this Africa Rally announcement, please visit their website here.

-Tim