Modifications Update!

As we enter the last remaining hours in Blighty some of the multitude of modifications to the Land Rover have been added in picture form! Please click on this Modifications link to see it! Our first video blog should be up in the next 24 hours! We leave on the ferry to Harwich at midnight tonight!

Food, food and more food (+20L of Water)

The food has been brought today! The money we raised went a long way to helping us with this bill, the total of which came to around 85 pounds. This included items such as tinned fruits, pasta and rice. Full list to follow! Please see below the boot after our epic shop!

Landrover Mods!

Updated with text only, photos to follow! and photos!

Personal Profile Pages…

 

 

These are now being uploaded, each page will read differently as they are written in the style of the person titling the page. Feel free to ask ask questions regarding the guys on the team…

Fund Raising

Tomorrow we embark to our Local Asda to plead our cause to our fellow neighbours! This will entail working on our vehicle and explaining exactly what we are going to put ourselves through and the distances we will have to travel daily. We are hoping that the good will of people will help us raise the much needed money for fuel and food towards our trip and the Documentary that will come out of it.

If anything, the main aim is to educate people about what we will be doing and why we are doing it.

Update: We have undertaken our fundraising and had a great day talking about our trip to people. We have raised a grand total of £42.01! A shopping list detailing what the public has helped us get will be published in a separate entry.

An Admin Editorial

Try and imagine, if you will, a number of, shall we say, persons, who have decided to take a  trip. Most people would go to Florida, or Butlins, or even a Bed and Breakfast in Brighton. But our erstwhile group of travellers? No Way!!!

Nope, this lot decided to get in a draughty Land Rover and drive to the arctic circle to see the Northern Lights. Well this is what we are told, anyway. Could it be they are fleeing something or somebody? Have they managed to lose their minds overnight?

I must admit before continuing, that I am rather fond of the nice warm living room in my house. If it’s cold, I have been known to hibernate; not just for a few days, but for months! I have ridden the rapids, flown planes and had myriad other adventures, but the idea of heading into the cold, deliberately, has never even crossed my mind, let alone appealed to me!

And so they are leaving! I don’t know whether they found enough carpet to keep themselves warm as they sleep in the Land Rover overnight! I don’t know if they are aware of the nasty creatures around the arctic circle – polar bears, penguins and baked alaska.

But still, I wish them the best. May they be safe and, well not too warm, as I believe they must suffer a little for their adventurous spirits and foolhardiness!

Go get ’em guys and try to keep all your fingers and toes!