The Pulled Up In A Lemon crew of four Kiwi women are continuing their adventures on the Mongol Rally as they travel from Prague to Ulan Ude, Russia, over an eight-week period in a 998cc Toyota Yaris.
They are now about 40 days into their epic drive, in an underpowered car, and two new blogs detailing the highs and lows of transcontinental travel have appeared on the Drivesouth website — www.drivesouth.co.nz. Read more about the jaw-dropping highways these intrepid women cross, the lack of showers they contend with and how Google Translate is their most handy travel tool.
One of the only all-women teams, they have bounced their way over rough Turkmenistan roads, camped in Cappadocia, drunk plenty of Turkish wine and danced the ‘‘whirling dervish’’.
They have experienced lengthy border crossings, got lost, and found another convoy of Kiwi Mongol Rally participants to party with at the Gates of Hell in the Karakum desert.
Since starting, Liz the Lemon — their trusty Yaris — has lost a spare tyre, had a cracked windscreen, done doughnuts in the sand and placed second in an around-the-mountain dirt-road rally race.
You can track Pulled Up In A Lemon’s progress using trackme.kiwi/event/unlistedview/1227/496486 or download the app Track Me NZ and enter lemon@trackme.nz.
Pulled Up In A Lemon is raising money for New Zealand’s Women’s Refuge. Its fundraising link is https:
//givealittle.co.nz/cause/pulledupinalemon.
- by Catherine Pattison
Photo: Pulled Up in a Lemon
