Team Steel Camel

In January 2008 Team Steel Camel set off from London for a little drive. 5,000 miles later, a bit tired and worried that our wives must be wondering where we'd got to, we thought we'd head back. By that point we had crossed the Sahara Desert, driven over a minefield in Mauritania and might have got a bit lost on the way...

In the end we drove through France, Spain and Gibraltar in three days. In Gibraltar we joined forces with Team Zissou. We took another three weeks to cross Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania and Mali to get to Bamako.

We completed the London-Bamako Rally and made it to Bamako in our trusty, rusty Vauxhaull Astra van in one piece (the van was for the most part in one piece, held together here and there with plastic ties), and raised over £1,500 for charity. Zissou somehow managed to get Bellafonte, their antique Renault 5, to the finish line too, although we thought at one point that we might have to put it in the back of the van to get it there.

The planning is starting now for another drive next year, this time 10,000 miles from London to Mongolia . We have created a Facebook page and Twitter account as the perfect accompaniment to this blog (and so our wives can keep track of us properly...), cast your eyes right a few inches to see the links!