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Entries from October 2008

Top Gear’s Race to the Pole

August 15th, 2007 · No Comments

You’ve got to watch this… It is long but well worth the time… what else where you planning to do with an hour of your life. It’s an Internet hour not like a real hour.. You spend more time than that at work surfing Amazon and ebay. Top Gear races a Toyota [...]

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Tags: Rants, Raves and the Zen Art of Road Trip Management

T-9 Days And An Extra 900 Miles

August 15th, 2007 · No Comments

As we drop into the single digits of days left before the expedition starts we are making some exiting changes. The goal of reaching the Arctic Circle and traveling up the Haul Road to the northern most ‘road’ acceptable place in the USA remains. And now we are going to attempt the same thing [...]

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Tags: 2007 Arctic Circle

Been There, Done That… Got The T-Shirt

August 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Thanks to Taylor Made T-Shirts and Entirely T-Shirts we have the commemorative Last Great Road Trip t-shirts. This makes it official we are over the top… Custom car graphics, T-shirts, world wide press coverage and our own blog.
Mike at Taylor Made was great. He had his guys over there at both Taylor [...]

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Tags: Rants, Raves and the Zen Art of Road Trip Management

T Minus 10 Days and Counting Down

August 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment

In ten days the expedition begins. To celebrate the start of the count down we’ve added a new crew member to the expedition’s team. Hula Betty will be joining the trip. Since we can’t take ourselves too serious, look for Hula Betty hiding in all the pictures of the trip. See [...]

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Tags: 2007 Arctic Circle

Project Managers Make Lists

August 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Everyone who backpacks in the wilderness knows about the ten essentials you should always carry. Every backpacker I know also has their own formula for those ten items that minimizes weight and meets the requirement. When your expedition is expecting to see temperatures from 20 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit and is looking at [...]

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Tags: 2007 Arctic Circle