Re: Bright Eyes has finished and is back home.

Hello all im back home safe and well just need to rest and repair before work on monday. I will back track and tell you how i got on in the last few days of the rally. I can't remember exact dates but i made really good progress and i travelled from Novosibirsk to Krasnoyarsk 500 miles in a day pretty good roads. Then from Krasnoyarsk heading for Irkutsk another 500 miles on shocking roads really bad but i couldn't make it to Irkutsk so slept in the car. Got up early and drove through Irkutsk and then i visited lake baikal then 280 miles to Ulan Ude really nice place and i had dinner in the irish bar there.

I pushed on a bit late in the morning to the Mongolian border which took a bit longer than usual and my check point for the night was a city called Darkhan 220 miles away but i made it in good time so i went for Ulaan Baatar and reached the finish 8.30pm local time. My aim was to go to Dave's place and find a place to stay only one other team there it was nice to see another team after more than two weeks by myself. I stayed in a cheap hotel for the night but regretted it not a good bed. The next morning took pictures of the main square and booked my flight home, handed the car over to CDPF and i treated myself because of what i had achieved to a five star hotel for my last night. I met some british tourists and we had a great dinner in the irish bar over there before a early morning flight home on the Thursday 31st of july.

My flight home was a bit of a ordeal to say the least i managed to shop around and get a good deal basically Ulaan Baatar to Berlin via Moscow quick transit and then another good deal from Berlin to London stanstead. The problem was i didn't feel that well on the planes due to the fact of jet lag etc. When i got to london i had to figure out a way back home to Manchester with very little money. So i made the desperate decision to hitch hike after three rides i arrived home in the early hours Friday totally knackered but i had my bed. I completed the rally a couple of days a head of schedule which means more time to recover. I still can't believe i did it and the not a single problem with the car a bit emotional leaving the mighty micra behind they really are king of the jungle. Good luck to every one else.

Regards

Matt