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Introducing Team (Daihatsu) Hi Jet Set One

London To Mongolia in a 997cc 4X4 Van


Dear friends, members of the press, immigration officials. We would like to introduce you to our hard charging rally team for the 2006 Mongol Rally. Our basic premise is as follows: take men with as little experience as possible in the art of rallying, fixing cars, and navigating back roads. Add in a car desperately unqualified to handle 6000 miles of driving. Obtain visas for as many countries ending in -stan as possible. Drive from London to Mongolia while living in Low-Rent-Decadence™.


In short, welcome to our adventure. This July and August, we are bringing Western decadence to the desert. We are going to be the pashtouns of central Asia and promise to take you along in our 1988 Daihatsu Hi Jet as we barrel in velour splendor from London to Mongolia . To be direct, we would like you to help promote our journey. At the very least, we invite you to follow along with our planning, our bickering, and our inevitable misfortunes as two sets of brothers and other makers of mischief hit the road.


If you blog, please blog about us. If you podcast, please talk about us. If your words appear in print, please put pen to paper for us. If you are a friend being harassed for money, please give, and give generously.


If you are interested in having us write about our failures and triumphs (more of the former, we assume) for your publication we would be thrilled to do so. For writing samples, please contact christianrbuss@yahoo.com. We promise to have our Strunk and White at our left side and our stash of Kyrgyz fermented mare’s milk at our right.


The Plan

London to Mongolia in a 1L Daihatsu Hi Jet. That's the basic premise. The implementation, a little more complicated. Come take a look at where we're planning on going. Click Here


The Charity

No one likes being a beggar, but we are looking to raise money for charity on this trip. We've found a charity that sounds ridiculous, but does some fantastic things. It's called "send a cow" and their purpose is to provide livestock to poor farmers in order to allow them to become self-reliant. Not only does the group provide the livestock, they also provide training and advice on how to keep stocks flourishing. Click Here


The Vehicle

The Daihatsu Hi Jet was described by Xhibit on Pimp My Ride as “a toaster on donuts,” but we’ve decided that this is to be our trusty (we hope) steed. Take a look at what a truly horrible car this really is. A horse might actually get us there faster. Click Here


The Team

While we are all boy scouts, round the world travelers, and generally not always foolish, on this trip we are taking a total lack of preparation as our guideline. We still have our motto: "don't get dead," but everything else is up to fate. Click Here


The Website

Once again, inexperience is our guide. But we’ve got heart, and that heart has led to our (admittedly ugly) website: www.teamlandyacht.com. Please come and take a look. Included on the website is everything that we have planned (very little), what we plan to see (very much), and some general tips for trips. Of course, being that we always want to put a smile on, we’ve come up with some unique features for our site:

1) News From The Stans: Daily news updates on politics, kidnapping, economics, and mayhem from the -stans

2) Pimp My Rider™: Given our acceptance of the garbage nature of our vehicle, we’ve decided to pimp the riders, not the rides. Think mild-mannered Dutch businessman turned Mongolian Yak Herder

3) Survival Tip of the Day: A collection of articles, updated as we find out more about how to delay death and carnage, with help from the Emergency Medicine Journal. Haven’t you always wanted to know more about Proximal Tibiofibular Dislocation?

4) Chasing Borat: We’ve got a crack team in London searching out Borat (of Ali G fame) for advice on how best to travel through his homeland ( Kazakhstan ). So far we’ve only been successful in finding him on the television, but please follow in our celebri-stalking adventures.


The Blog

Of course, don’t forget the Official Blog of Team Hi Jet Set, lead diplomats of the Hi Jet Set Lifestyle. Click Here


Contact Us

Our lead contact in the United States is Christian Buss. He’s reachable at any time at christianrbuss@yahoo.com and via telephone at 510-384-3135.



With Warmest Regards,

Team Hi Jet Set


PS, our outsourced blog writing team wanted to convey a brief message: We welcome the crew that is madman crazy. We will die, but we will die smiling. If we can find it, these are monkeys who are willing to open up to the power route from London to Mongolia .