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ONCE AROUND THE GLOBE IN A '60 CHEVY

Meet Len and Kim who have decided to travel the world in a 1960 Chevrolet.

Their journey begins in their hometown Edmonton and heads to Vancouver to travel with the "rally" car. Then it is a 33 Day Rally Race from Peking to Paris. And to conclude the expediation they make their way home from Halifax.

The journey will take them over 15,000 kms ..

Friday, July 26, 2013

Day#33.1: And still to come ...

26JUL13:

Well the first & second parts of our journey are history;
Edmonton to Vancouver THEN Peking to Paris
About 9000 miles so far. 

Our old Chevy, which we fondly call our fat old girl friend has worked great other than a broken track bar in Mongolia which forced us to break out the lawn chairs & beer for a couple of hours. It was not so bad, Monte & Phil arrived in their Chrysler Airflow with lunch & gratefully shared lunch in exchange for cold beer. 
Other than that, a turn signal flasher & an oil change got us to Paris. The whole adventure ( ENDURANCE RALLY )which is very true, had us up most mornings at 6.00 am, most days ended late as the bar was always full & alive with stories of the day. 
The day we arrived in Paris was surreal, didn't know whether to happy or sad. Anyways we arrived to a huge crowd of onlookers,friends & family got out of the car drank champagne, lots of congratulations amongst the teams, passed the keys off to Cars UK & walked away ( sure hope they picked it up ). That evening at the ball dressed to the nines in our best we were presented with the spirit of the rally award. I guess our attitude, our willingness to help, our trunk full of parts & tools, the cold beer had something to do with that. We were truly honored.

The next leg of our journey will start in Halifax hopefully the middle of Sept & will take us across Canada back to Edmonton, this should bring the the total mileage to 15,000 miles. Anyways we are looking forward to the east in the fall & meeting more people along the way.

-Kim & Len


We have two months to prep up for the last lag of Kim and Lens Greatest Adventure .. YET


Amsterdam -56 days later -  time to go home (stupid reality)


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