Oh my, what a day. It is almost 1am here in London and we take off for Hyde Park tomorrow at 7am. Time for bed for us! Before we turn out the lights, I wanted to share a quick post about our final, crazy day in London.

Had you been a fly on the wall in the life of the Sandbox Savants today, you probably would have gotten quite a kick watching us scurry around London in our awesome no-power-steering Suzi, getting it (gender still tbd) all tuned up and ready to go. I’ll spare you from having to read a play-by-play and instead emphasize that today was all about awesome people, stepping up to help get us squared away and down to Hyde Park for the rally start tomorrow morning.

Our pre-departure activities ranged from rotating tires, mounting our spares, replacing the fan and auxiliary belts,  purchasing a handful of other spare parts, re-welding part of our winch, finalizing our route through Europe …  the list goes on.

Rereading what I just wrote, I suppose it sounds a little like -we- did the handy work. It’s important to note that Doug, Aparna and I didn’t bust out the blow torch and socket wrench. Aside from getting a little grease on our hands strapping our gear to the roof rack, we stayed pretty clean.

Today, Aparna’s friend Benny drove us around to various people and car shops to finalize the car preparations. Talk about down to the wire! I’m still shocked at the amount of work we got done today. Special thanks to Midnight Motors, Andrew’s Garage, Niel, Aaron, Benny and Steve for all your work on the car!

Alright, the bed is calling my name. We will post a few more pictures from today soon on Our Photos page. Also, keep an eye on the website for a link to our SPOT messenger, which should be up and running shortly thanks to my awesome housemate, Matt.

Until we post again, be well!