adventurists

This week we're exploring the extremes of travel as opposed to traditional organised holidays. Unquestionably, Tom Morgan is our most eccentric and daredevil traveller to date. 

Music @ Barney and Izzi Hardy

 

Navigating the roads of India sounds like a psychedelic nightmare. You must contend with livestock, wild animals, improvised paving, crowds of people and an armada of questionable vehicles operating without rules, all sporting a vivid rainbow of eye catching colors. And our friend is barreling what amounts to a two-stroke tricycle with a canopy directly through all of that mess. It's a miracle that he survived with his sanity intact.

In Episode 18 in my travel podcast series, I talk to Sherry Ott about the Mongol Rally and her adventures driving from London to Mongolia with three other travel bloggers. I met Sherry, who blogs at Ottsworld, in London just as their Social Media Syndicate (with Deb and Dave from ThePlanetD and Rick from Midlife Roadtrip ) were preparing to leave England starting from Goodwood. Now Sherry’s safely back from the Mongol Rally we caught up and heard about their adventures driving on dirt roads when the tarmac ran out, through rivers and over rickety bridges, although all this seemed tame compared to what happened to some of the other teams. In 5 weeks they made it to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia where all the Mongol Rally cars were sold to raise money for charity and there were not one but three finish line parties to celebrate the achievement