I was iffy about it but then my mum rang me up having watched it raving about the joys of adventure and why not do it and all of that. Now before everytime I mentioned driving Fiat Pandas to Beijing she kind of shut down on me and didn't want to hear about her baby (hey I'm only 38) driving off into the cuds. Now, she's all interested. So hey it gets people watching.
As for the support, well without it would we have the TV series? I doubt it, you do need those two cars to lug round those camera people and tape stock and all that lot in order to get a TV quality show out of it. We know every travel show we watch on TV has them, it's just this time we actually get to see them.
And what sealed it for me was accidentally stumbling across an adventure CYCLIST's blog who bumped into this lot in Namibia or somewhere very remote. Apparently they were as surprised as he was and stopped for a chat. Then before they left they dug into their emergency fund and gave the guy £1000 for the charity he's riding for.
So not so bad after all (says the man attempting to sell his soul to the same devil as E&C)
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