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How does the adventure of your lifetime look like? Where is it? Where are you? Where did you get lost? Are you sure you're going in the right direction? Do you know when you're gonna get there?


Hi!

We're Rusty, Oana and Florina and we're on our way to the adventure of our lifetimes. Of all the questions we asked above, we only know the answer to one: we want to go to Mongolia! We know one more thing, and that's that we want to get there this summer and that what's driving us is the desire of adventure and the pull of the unknown. Basically, we're signing up to take Rusty to Mongolia, preferably on her own wheels. We're not racing against the clock, but it's not going to be easy, especially since we're not choosing the easy way out: we want to see the 'Stans', meaning most of the ex-USSR countries.

Rusty is by far the most important member of the team. But since she's got four wheels and four doors, she is gentle and tame and she always does what her team-mates tell her to do. She has sweltered and frozen stoically many times and that's why this trip is going to be her lifetime achievement.

Oana and Florina are always looking for new adventures. Together, they have travelled in more than 40 countries and they survived with no problems and no major indigestions. They like to discover new places and new cultures, and this can only stir their wanderlust.

This is us. And for 2 months we plan on driving for about 14000 km to get to our destination. The roads are not important; we'll have them all: highways, national roads, county by-ways, back roads and even dried-up riverbeds. We don't have a lot of mechanical know-how, nor too many muscles, nor any outside help. It's gonna be just us, facing unusual situations in places which we didn't even imagine. In order to make our experience more 'authentic', we want to avoid the comfort of hotels and hot showers, and so we decided to camp as much as possible on the route and to manage our mobile household ourselves.

In order to fulfil our dream, we need your financial support. Apart from the initial costs of fitting the car, we need to apply for visas, to acquire insurance, to pay for petrol, food and, once in a while, for accommodation on the way, we need to obtain equipment, tools and spare tires... All this planning seems like a never-ending task, so any encouragement and advice is also of great help.

Furthermore, we would like to make our undertaking known in a positive way: once we return, we wish to exhibit photographs of our adventure for all those interested in Central Asia. We also want to make the photographs available for purchase and to donate all the income to a charitable organization. This is something we strongly believe in.

Through your support, you can join us in this adventure. We want to express our gratitude through photos, stories, and any type of communication methods available to us along the way. We do have some little perks for our backers, which means that for any aid of under €20 we'll literally take you with us: we'll put up stickers with your name on Rusty's rear doors, so we'll really glue your fate to ours. If you're willing to donate anything between €20 and €50, that sticker with your name will be bigger and more noticeable. Lastly, for any financial support exceeding €50, we'll paste a message of your choosing on our car to any Azeris, Kyrgyz, Russians or Mongolians or whatever you want to say and it'll go wherever we go. Any donation is a real joy for us, whether it's here, on GoGetFunding, or straight into our PayPal account, PayPal.Me/OanaMariaH.

Moreover, the more people know of our tricky trial, the better. So tell your friends about us; tell your family; tell your university mates and your office colleagues; tell the Uber driver and your dentist; tell your piano teacher, your boss and even the guys in HR. More support means that we are getting closer to fulfilling a dream and that we can actually help someone in need through charitable acts.


We're dreamers but we're also optimistic: we believe that dreams can become reality and that we need to do our best to make them come true. Help us prove that it can be done!

Fundraising Team

  • Florina Hica
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  • Campaign Owner
  • Oana Harabagiu
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  • Campaign Owner

Donors

  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Jun 14, 2018
  • you go girls! :)

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  • Anonymous
  • Donated on May 29, 2018
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Jul 09

Update

Update posted by Florina Hica at 03:12 pm

Dear all,We are sorry to say that we have to stop the campaign and that we won't be making our way to Mongolia this year. Still, we hope we'll come back stronger and better prepared in the future and take on this adventure to the end of all paved roads

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May 25

Rusty's getting ready

Update posted by Florina Hica at 03:02 pm

Since no real lady can go out without tidying herself up, Rusty preened her feathers, put on makeup and perked up.

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Donors & Comments

6 donors
  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Jun 14, 2018
  • you go girls! :)

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  • Anonymous
  • Donated on May 29, 2018
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€100.00
  • Larry Grigore
  • Donated on May 25, 2018
€10.00
  • Anonymous
  • Donated on May 22, 2018
  • Don't waste money on stickers with my name on them :)))

€10.00
  • Adina Stoicescu
  • Donated on May 17, 2018
  • Mult succes, fetelor! It's a dream journey for me - impreuna cu o buna prietena, care are origini mongole, ne dorim sa pornim candva intr-o aventura similara. Asteptam cu nerabdare sa transformati voi acest vis in realitate, pentru a ne povesti si a ne indruma si pe noi pentru cand ne vom simti pregatite! Bon courage!

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Followers

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Wei-Chi Huang
Madalina Ion
Adina Stoicescu
€180.00
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