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At the beginning of the year, we signed ourselves up for the biggest adventure of our lives, the Mongol Rally, which is basically the most ridiculous road trip on Earth. And it's supposed to be done in the most impractical vehicle possible. Most teams drive these tiny little cars, but we needed something a little bit bigger for our team of nine. What have we done? Buy your first passenger. In this video, we document the crazy 5mon process of figuring out how to buy an American school bus.
WE'LL TAKE IT. DO YOU GET IT? DID YOU DRIVING it across the US from Colorado to Baltimore. This has been the longest road trip of my life. Then shipping it across the Atlantic. Picking it up at a port in Hamburg, Germany. Please start. No. And finally driving to the start line in Prague. This has already been the biggest logistical challenge we have ever faced. No. What is happening right now? Just to get to the start line, we had to drive 2,500 miles. Everyone is stopping in their tracks and looking at the bus. People are taking pictures. So, sit back, relax, and join us for the first of many episodes of
Driving an American School Bus halfway around the world. We have never started prepping for an adventure this far in advance. This is going to be the longest single adventure we've ever done. I see a bus. It's right there. What are we doing? It's amazing. Like, I don't think you understand. When my family come from Australia to the US, all they want to do is see the school buses. To take one of these out of the country, it's going to be out there. Is so cool. This was my main criteria that it has this stop sign that pops out when you stop. Every time we stop, I just want this thing to go.
Oh, wow. Think this can make it across Mongolia. Yeah. Can you imagine me driving this thing? Whoa. Did you put the hood up? No. Look how big the steering wheel is. You can stand up. Who's riding backwards the whole time? You. It's like the most unnecessary thing ever. We'll take it. Okay, so that bus was perfect except for the fact that we learned that it weighed almost 30,000 lbs and after a little research learned that would be illegal to drive in Europe without a special license. It's almost impossible
to get if you don't live in Europe. So, we've gone back to the drawing board. I'm currently on a um government auction website. This school bus weighs less than half of the other one and it'll still fit all of us. The auction has 11 minutes remaining and I'm currently the high bidder at $2,600. Although there are two other serious biders in this auction with me that I've been going back and forth with all day. So, I have a feeling this is going to escalate in the last few minutes. What a rush. Bid extensions will automatically extend the auction for 3 minutes. If a bid is placed during the final 3 minutes of the auction, this will continue until no bids are placed during the last 3 minutes. This could go forever. All
right, I'm going to go ahead and bump it up to 2,750. So, now I'm uh I'm on the Rally website. Here's what it says for cars. Rule number one is small and vehicle. It's about small. It's about stupid. It's about unsustainability. And it's about humor. We shall allow larger engines if we think it's unsuitable and ridiculous enough. We have chatted back and forth with the Mongol Rally team and gotten approval to buy a school bus. In a way, a small car would make this drive really hard, but at the same time, once a vehicle gets so big, it also gets very hard. Like there's two opposite ends of
the spectrum because think about it. If a small car breaks down, you can push it. Anyone can tow it. If this bus breaks down, I don't know what's gonna happen. Oh no, this is gonna take forever. I'm gonna go ahead and go up to 3,000. This is the only bus of its size in Colorado. When I first looked at this bus, the max bid was $825. But today, it's just me and whoever FA is. This is our bus. Oh, we're under the 2minute mark. [panting] Don't do it. Should we put uh the group on speaker? Yeah. 60 seconds.
OH MY GOD. WHAT IS HAPPENING? 50 SECONDS. [screaming] OH, SO THEY just bit again. We've gone back up to three more minutes. Oh, we've hit my bid. I'm now losing. I'm going up to five. Oh, we have a new bidder. What? SW the new villain in the story. All right, we've officially gone under a minute. We have the high bid at 4,000. 43 seconds. 41 40 39 38. The rest of the team 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. CLOSED. DO WE GET IT? DID YOU GET IT? I don't know. IT SAYS CLOSED. IT DOESN'T play like you won.
Yeah, I expected like confetti all over the screen. That was so antilimactic. That's so like the government like that. Well, I'm pretty sure we won, but I'm not getting any type of confirmation. This is so concerning. Guess I'll just go on with my day as usual. It feels like I should be doing something with this, but I guess bought an 18-year-old bus and now there's nothing to do. We're just bus owners now. This is so ridiculous. We got the bus. It's finally happening. Took a little time because we had to wait for them to get the title and then we had to schedule a pickup, but we're about to see our bus for the first time.
Hopefully, it runs. Oh gosh. Because like we've bought the bus. There's no test drive. So, they just gave us an address. So, we don't actually know where we're going, but it kind of looks like we're pulling into a school. I mean, it may sound like a school bus out of school, but I feel like such a creep pulling up to a school in the middle of a school day. Hey. All right. Is that it right there? What you're hearing there, that's the air ride pump for the back. I think what you need to do is probably get underneath there with soap and water, check that line because it shouldn't be running all that often.
All right. Oh my gosh. My wife drove this bus for the last four years and then she retired. I think we can uh go ahead and change this rule. Going to be doing a lot of eating and drinking trash. He's going to open the hood and I'm going to pretend like I know what he's talking about. See like this. See? See how it's rotten like over here? Yeah. Wa. When you guys get home, I don't need you guys getting all the kids over THERE SAYING, "COME ON, GO FOR A RIDE." THAT'S THE FIRST THING WE'RE DOING, MAN.
I haven't opened a window like this in so long. Welcome in, kids. What do you think? I don't know. Honestly, it's in a little worse shape than I was expecting. He said it didn't start this morning. It has rust on the bottom. It has an oil leak. It looks great. Like, if he didn't tell me any of that, I'd be like, "Sweet." Like what a steal. I'm just happy it runs and we could leave today. He did work to this. He made sure like things were good this morning. I thought he was just going to be like, "You bought it off the website.
Good luck." I can't wrap my head around the fact that we are going to be living out of this thing for like 2 months. Like the places this bus will go, you have no idea. Just hang in there. Okay. Love you. Good luck. Thanks. Be safe. I feel like it's going to be about like driving the van. I can't believe you could just drive a school bus. Garrett's driving our car. I'm driving the van. We're taking it to Rick and Beck's. And that's where it's going to sit while we get it ready for the Mongol Rally. Let's see if the bus survives its first 3 and 1/2 hour drive. Bye. Check engine light is on. Good start.
All right, here we go. All feels pretty normal. There she goes. Thank you. Bye, Roland. He was an absolute legend. What have we done? There's some smoke coming out of the back. That doesn't look great. We are hopping on I7 for the first time with a speed limit of 75 mph. Let's see if this thing is capable of going the speed limit. 55 70. So loud. 75. We're going the speed limit. This thing flies. Just driving a school bus. It is so beautiful right now. The bus is running great. I just could not be happier. All right, one last test. We're going off road with it.
See how it'll hold up on the roads in Kazakhstan. About your first passenger. Welcome on board. Hey, thanks. This is like lower to the ground. I know. This is actually perfect. It drove 3 and 1/2 hours over the mountains. No problem. Yes. That's awesome. I'd say it has more power than our van. The test drive could not have gone better. So, we lived in a van for 2 years during CO and we've made this drive across the US multiple times. And there's two different routes you can go. You can either take I80, which goes further
north, or I70, which basically goes right across the middle. Let's just say neither of those routes are very interesting, and they're both almost the exact same distance and time. So, we have decided to leave our future up to the flip of a coin. This is a Japanese yen. This is the only coin I can find, not a quarter. On this side, we have the numbers. This is 100 yen. And on this side, we have flowers. So, if we can see the numbers when it lands, we'll take I80. If we can see the flowers when it lands, we'll take I70. Do you have one that you want it to be? I was about to ask you the same question. Are you ready for this?
Uh-huh. I'm scared. Where? Oh, here we go again. Back on 70. One you go through Kansas, one you go through Nebraska. No offense. Yeah, they're describing to people there. They're not exciting states to drive through. I7 it is. Massive thanks to the Naw family for all the work they did on the bus while we were gallivanting around Argentina. You fixed it. Success. Whenever it does what it does, it'll do it silently. Just listen. Exactly. When we left, every two minutes the bus was going.
12 seconds later. Rick fixed the compressor. They took it to a diesel mechanic to make sure the engine was looking good. Put two new batteries in it. They painted the side. So, now it's time for us to do our part in getting this bus to the start of the Mongol Rally. Here we go. Be a long journey. What could possibly go wrong? So, the start line of the Mongol Rally is in Prague, which is in Europe. And in order to get it there, we have to put it on a ship across the Atlantic Ocean. And in order to do that, we have to drive it to
Baltimore. We're in Colorado. It's roughly 1,800 miles and we've given ourselves 4 days to do it. Let's just hope. Well, I'm not even going to say it. We cannot afford a breakdown. And so far, this bus has given us nothing but problems. And kid you not, we were only on the road for 30 minutes before we already stopped for some coffee. It's almost 5:00, but we're planning to drive pretty late into the night. So, about worth the stop. Well, exciting start to the trip because we're on 70. We've gone over this mountain pass that goes up to 11,000 ft and we are in a snowstorm in the middle of Colorado in the middle of spring.
Like, it's almost summer. Maybe we should have taken 80. We're just really putting it to the test before the rally starts. Woo! Jeez, I came off the ground. Nate for the future here. We are currently at the airport in route to our longest and probably craziest adventure we've ever filmed for this channel. We are going to be driving this bus 7,000 mi from Germany to Kazakhstan. And while we're here at the airport, I'm trying to get a bunch of last minute planning done. And to do that, I need to be connected to airport Wi-Fi. And if you don't know, being connected to public
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time. This has to be the most expensive time we could possibly be doing this trip. So, I thought it'd be fun to keep up with uh how much it costs to drive across the US in a school bus. I have no clue how many gallons this thing holds. $120 and it wasn't even all the way empty. We made it to our favorite state. Yay. I'm sure that Kansas has some amazing parts to it, but I70 is not one of them. Add it to the total.
I feel like we just stopped for gas. You haven't missed anything. Making a huge dent in our snack bags, though. I packed two giant bags of our favorite snacks. These are all sweets. These are all salty. Ate a whole bag of these. A whole bag of the world's best jerky. Now I'm breaking into the pretzels. Well, I thought I was going to make it to the hotel without eating more snacks, but as soon as you open one, I have to have. All right. 12:15 in the morning. We have made it to Hayes, Kansas, and it is time to get some sleep. I think I'll like take my backpack as a pillow right here. I just brought my feet up right here.
It's really not that bad. We are not doing that. [snorts] We did seriously consider buying an air mattress to throw in the back of the bus because after living in a van, it just feels so wrong not to sleep in the back of the car that we're driving across the country. But Carrie gave me a long list of reasons why that was a bad idea. So, uh, this is home sweet home. Are you a little sad we're not sleeping in the back of the bus? I'm actually pretty sad. It was so cold out there, though. It was. But there's just something really fun about like pulling into your campsite and then just going to sleep.
A campsite? You mean a Walmart? Yeah. Nothing showing at the holiday. Surely this is not as dark as the room gets. I think we're right under the sign. It kind of feels like we booked an aquarium room. It's very nice. Didn't know what to expect from Hayes, Kansas. Well, I think there is a blackout. Well, I brought my eye mask. You going to give us a bed test? Well, what's going on? The hood will close, just not all the way. So, like it is locked. Like, I can't pull it up, but it should close like one more. And I'm scared that I'm gonna be driving down the interstate and it's gonna go boom.
Maybe shut the door. Oh, that feels like a good idea. No, no, no, no, no, no. What is happening right now? I hate this bus. We parked it last night. It's even got this like kill switch under the hood to make sure there's no electronics on. I turn that off and then we come back out this morning and it won't start. I mean, it just feels like the car has power. Other times when it hasn't started, it hasn't felt like this. The noise is coming from here. Hey, maybe it just won't start cuz one of like the security Try slamming it.
This thing has been giving us problems. It feels pretty shut though. What could it be? When you touch something over [screaming] here, it stopped. Which makes me feel like it's got to be this. I'm going to shut this door and then the bus is going to start. Please start. Please, please, please, please. Not even close. NO. ALL RIGHT, WE'RE TRYING THE back door again because when Nate touched it earlier, it stopped for just a second. So, I feel like this has to be it.
What the heck? All right, let me shut this door. Let's see if it stops. HEY, [screaming] IT STOPPED. Come on. Close the door. OH, I WAS not ready to go begging people around the parking lot to jump us off. I'm so happy. I feel really bad about my negative energy at the very beginning. I hate this bus. Last night, we were leaving some stuff in here. So, all I did was Don't touch it. Just pulled that over and lock the door.
What I didn't realize is for some reason you have to push that lock all the way back over and there's a sensor on the back side of it to let you know that the door is unlocked. I don't understand. Like, why would you need a sensor to tell you that the door is unlocked? Theory. This is an emergency exit. It is. So, like if the kids were on the bus in an emergency and that's locked, it's like dangerous. Okay, it's fixed. I got under the hood and I did something. What a rush. Oh, what a beautiful sound. I'll never take that for granted again.
All right, 20 more hours. Good morning from Louisville, Kentucky. Let's see. What have you missed? Uh, we drove some long straight roads through Kansas. In Missouri, we realized that we were basically driving on the same route that we took when we rode that three-seater bike across the US. So, we took a little trip down memory lane, riding through Missouri, saw the St. Louis Arch briefly just kind of looks like a pole mouth. And then so far the highlight of the trip was yesterday we surprised my nieces and nephew in Louisville. How do you not say this? Like so country. Louisville. My sister brought him up. She didn't tell him we were going to be here. We hid behind the bus.
Whose bus are you looking at? And I just feel like as a kid that must have been so cool to be in a school bus and be able to like open and close the door and just do whatever you want. Like that would have been my dream as a kid. And then we played some indoor putt. They drove back to Nashville. We stayed in a hotel last night. And from here we still have a 9h hour drive to Baltimore. We have a day and a half to do it. The only challenge is going to be these boxes right here. This is like foam boat decking that we bought off Amazon. So, we had this dream of building a deck on top of the bus for the Mongol Rally cuz like we're going to be in all these beautiful places. We
pictured it ending the day, sitting on top of the bus with a drink, watching the sunset. We got a quote for somebody else to build the roof deck, and to put a roof deck on top of the bus was going to cost as much as the bus itself. So, plan B is to take all of those boat floor pads and just stick them on top of the bus. Right now, if you're up there, it's like super slick. And we thought that might make it like usable as a hangout area. The only problem is we've had beautiful weather up to this point in the drive, and now it's supposed to rain for the next day and a half. So, I don't know exactly when and where we're going to put the roof on. That was full trust.
495. Cheapest gas of the trip. I cannot believe we finally made it to Maryland. We still have three hours till we get to Baltimore, but feels good to be here. This has been the longest road trip of my life. That should be the official total for the trip because we are an hour and a half away from where we're dropping off the bus and we have to put the bus on the ship with less than a quarter of a tank of gas. So hopefully I've done my math right. Just have to go drive around in circles if I've done bad math. It is 11:15. We have made it to Frederickburg, which is 45 minutes away from [snorts] our final destination. There is a Home Depot right down the road, which is where I'm planning on putting all of the decking
on top of the bus in the morning. But that's assuming that it quits raining, which the forecast is not calling for. We'll see you in the morning. Oh, I meant to point out the Memorial Day Christmas tree. Oh, it's so cold. Good morning. It is still raining, but I think we have a plan. We got this. Oh, what do we say about good attitudes this morning? I'm sorry. When I'm cold, it's a lot harder to do that.
Okay, good news and bad news. Bad news, we could not find anywhere to put this deck on the roof. The good news is we figured out we can return it all on Amazon. So, we are at the UPS store. We're going to go in, return all of it, and then I was on the German version of Amazon earlier and learned we can just buy it all again when we get there. So, at this point, it's a problem for another day. First way. What does that mean? What's the number you have? No, I don't have anything. I need the bus, right? The license plate number.
Anyone? The bus number or the license plate number. Okay, here was the problem with that. This is where I sit and this is where 18-wheelers sit. So, I was just standing below yelling up at the speaker. I don't think this is meant for waiting school buses. So, before we put the bus on the ship, we had to get it weighed one last time. The truck stop was the only place I could think to do that. And that went about as smoothly as I expected. That lady definitely thought I was crazy and was very frustrated with me. She was very annoyed. All right, I got the way slip. 9,580 lb. Okay, before we drop off the bus, there is one last very important thing that needs to be done. It's pretty dirty in here. You ready for this?
Party lights. I'm going to go ahead and hang these up and then they can't take them away. They're pretty sticky. I'm impressed. You can change the color and the rhythm of the lights with a remote. They're so cute. All right, we got about 20 minutes until this bus has to be dropped off. Do you think you can do it? That looks great. It's amazing. This is what Google Maps brought us, too. We're so close. Everything's gone so smoothly. This is so random. Okay, so the bus actually doesn't get on the boat for a few more days and we have to fly out in the morning. So, we're leaving it with
an escort service. It says park the bus in front of the burgundy freight liner. So, I guess just right there. All right, let's do it. It just feels so strange that we're leaving our bus in this strange parking lot and the next time we see it is going to be in Germany. So from here, the escort service is in charge of getting it on the ship. It'll spend a few weeks going across the Atlantic to Hamburg. In the meantime, we'll fly to Australia where I'll be running a race, which by the time this video comes out, you will have already seen, and we will see you again shortly in Germany. I cannot believe how well
the bus ran all the way here. No issues at all, except for us not knowing how to close that back door properly. I am so grateful for that. All right, gates locked back. Bus is safe. It's like a sad goodbye with the rain. I already feel connected to it. I can't imagine how it's going to feel at the end of the rally leaving it. Hello. So, I have good news and also bad news. Uh good news is custom filament is finished. Um but the bad news is um the customs officer told me that since you have plates on the vehicle and it's apparently uh still registered used to pay uh vehicle fees vehicle taxes
because the vehicle is leaving Germany is I thought we weren't going to have to pay those. Is that right? No, it's not right. No, because when you're still driving on the street uh so how much do we need to pay? I don't know exact amount. They need to calculate it. They will do it with two big meters and something like that. When do you want to pick it up? Uh, we're going to come tomorrow morning now. Yes, sounds good. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Goodbye. I don't get it.
I found all of that very confusing. We have now been in Hamburg for 3 days waiting on the bus to clear customs. That was the guy that's helping us with all of it. It sounds like tomorrow is going to be interesting. I was really hoping that it was going to be super quick pickup at the port drive down to Prague. Get there before the Decathlon closed so we can pick up a bunch of camping stuff that we need. But no. [clears throat] All right, we'll see you tomorrow. We are starting the morning with a 2-hour drive from Hamburg to the port of Brimmer Haven where the bus is waiting for us. This is just wild that this is actually happening. We are starting at the office of the logistics company that
helped us ship the bus over here. Originally, I thought we were just like picking the bus up and driving straight to Prague, but based on yesterday's phone call, it sounds like there's going to be a little bit more to do today. So, uh, let's go figure this out. This also for the pickup as we get to the warehouse. Bye. Okay. Dimmitri, who works at the office, is very kind and offered to take Nate to go do all the things we're supposed to do. I don't know how long any of this is going to take. Um, so I'm just sitting at the office with all of our stuff and waiting for them to get back. Well, I'm uh not exactly sure what's going on, but it's starting to feel like the DMV and America. So, we've now been
here for u an hour just waiting for a guy behind the desk who's making a lot of phone calls. I have learned that there was a mixup and the bus was imported into the country as a vehicle that was staying here instead of one that was going to be here temporarily and that's why we're here paying the tax in the first place. So, from what I understand, we've told the guy behind the counter that the bus is leaving in 2 weeks. Maybe he's going to be able to reverse that. Hopefully, he's going to save me like $1,000 on not having to pay taxes. on to the next stop.
I'm still very confused on what just happened. All I know is that we ended up walking out of the office and I didn't have to pay anything. See you back at the office. Yeah. Okay. Hello. Do you speak English? Thinking of a bus. Yeah. Can you guys come out? Okay. Thank you. So, apparently I'm just waiting on a guy who's going to appear out of nowhere and uh take me into the port. This is very much just like trust the process and go with the flow because I don't have a great understanding of what's happening. I really hope the keys are in it. Oh, good.
Please start. No, maybe I turned it off. Hey, let's go. Not only did the bus officially make it to Europe, but it started. I think that's the ship it came over on. It's probably 10 stories high, if not more. It's crazy this stuff that gets shipped across the ocean. I see tractors. That looks like a carnival ride. And then just a ton of what looks like farming machinery that I have no idea what it is. So, I think the next step is I go to some office. I show them some papers the guy gave me and then I think the bus will officially be in Europe. Okay. Bye. All right. Got the stamp and signature. We're official. We're back.
I can't believe it. The bus is just hours in Europe. Sorry. Tickets. Tickets, please. Okay, I'll just put Prague in the map. This feels so wild. Prague is 350 mi away. According to Google Maps, it's going to take 8 hours and 12 minutes. The Decathlon that we need to go pick up all of our camping stuff from closes at 900 p.m. So, we're already going to be 1 minute late. And there's no way we're making up time driving a bus through Europe. So, we are officially on the German autobon, which is a really long, fast interstate basically. I would love to know if another American school bus has been on
the autobond before. I always thought the autobomb was like one road. I heard of it as a kid because it was like, you know, the road in Germany with no speed limit. But it turns out that the Autobon is basically like Germany's highway system or like their interstates and there are only certain sections of it that don't have a speed limit. We're looking for this white sign with five black lines through it. And then we can take this baby as fast as we can. No more speed limit. WHERE ARE WE AT? 77. IT'S GOING TO EXPLODE. I DON'T WANT IT to blow up before the rally starts. The speedometer on this thing maxes out at 100 and I'm so tempted.
I have a feeling this is going to be pretty painful compared to what we were paying in the US. The euros are flying up. That was amazing. The old lady at the gas station spoke no English and as I was like finishing paying, she pointed at the bus and she was like, "Cool, people are loving the bus. I keep feeling like I'm doing something wrong when I'm on the road because everybody's looking at us, but then I have to remind myself that I'm driving a yellow American school bus through Europe." I just didn't even think about how novel that would be for people. Yeah. In my mind, like this is just like so normal. But I think it's like Hollywood.
We just got to the grocery store and everyone is stopping in their tracks and looking at the bus. People are taking pictures. It's amazing. Look at where we are. Culture. A real German Aldi. Bigger in Germany. We have some couscous, but they didn't have forks, so we're using chips as forks. My son wants to look at your car because it's special here in Germany. Oh, amazing. He's welcome to uh to look inside. Thank you. Welcome on board. Have you ever seen a yellow school bus before?
Yes, we was every year in the USA. Oh, nice. That was so cute. Oh, that back door is still Oh, wow. Still learned our lesson. It's been a while. There we go. Lot of traffic on the autobond. All I'm going to say is I'm not proud of this. It needed to be quick. The drone plant McNuggets are pretty good. We're just really into culture today. I think we just crossed into the Czech Republic. Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany.
Czech Republic. Back. Country number two. It is 12:28. We made it. How was that for you? My butt is so tired that it's worrisome cuz we're going to be spending like that times 100 in the next 6 weeks. I feel like this whole video is just me getting somewhere looking tired and saying that we made it. So, I'm going to go try to be more positive. The bus ran amazing. We're almost there. We didn't get pulled over for breaking some traffic law that I don't know about because we're driving in a different country. So true.
All things considered, today was great. I didn't really think about the fact that this was the first like European road trip this has ever taken. And we did it. We did it. Let's go see what a random hotel in the middle of nowhere, Czech Republic, looks like. We just parked the bus in somebody's front yard because the hotel doesn't have any parking. This is going to be way more fun when we have a bunch more people to laugh about this stuff with. All we have to do is just walk all the way to the end of this road. The good news is we can just walk down the middle of the road because it's
1:00 in the morning and nobody's out. Bad news is we're waking everybody up in all these houses. I told you we should have gotten backpacks. All right, home sweet home. This feels very nostalgic. Nothing like a little late night scavenger hunt check in. Well, Let's go. I like that there's not a single light on in this hotel. There's trees everywhere. It's like we're in a horror movie. Okay, step four. Find our room. Oh, it's so bright. 21 22. It's got to be on this side. This back side everything.
It smells clean. It's so cute. Wow. This is much better than expected. and we will see you in 7 hours. This is way better. The bus is still here. Looks lovely during the daytime. Good morning. [clears throat] The hotel was great. So, the Catholon is basically like the Dicks sporting goods of Europe, and we have a pickup order for all nine people's camping stuff, which means I think we're about to get a ridiculous amount of stuff to throw in the back of the bus. Oh my gosh. From the US eventually. And we still need a couple more things.
I mean, I knew it was going to be a bunch, but it seemed like less than this online. Wow. I would say everything fit much better than expected. And we gave three families tours while we were sitting here in the parking lot. This is so much fun. Uh, okay. From here, we're driving into the actual city of Prague. We're going to try to find somewhere to park this bus. We have an Airbnb booked in the old town tonight. And by the end of the day, eight of nine team members will be here. Let's see if this was a terrible mistake. Being behind this huge truck is clutch. He's paving the way for the bus. Oh, is this a oneway?
Please tell me I did not just bring down a oneway. Oh gosh. Oh, it's your dad. Oh gosh. Really messed it up. Oh no. I got time. That was very illegal. Oh my gosh. Way to stay calm. I wasn't. Can we make it into the lot? Oh gosh. All right, you're good back here. This is the situation. Oh, and there's cars behind us. This is happening. We're definitely going to run over this curb. All right. Woo. This was about how I thought it was going to go trying to park in the city. We got turned around.
He told us there was a bigger lot if we go right and right. Woo! I broke a full body sweat right there. Out of everything that like could possibly be stressful or go wrong during the rally, driving this bus and trying to park it in the big cities in Europe is what I anticipate it being most stressful. They just don't have cars this big in Europe. Oh yeah, this is much easier to park. Let's see if this guy likes this or not. He said no. This way. He said there was parking up here. It looks like where the flicks bus drops everybody off.
This is a bus terminal. Yeah. I go back. Oh, he wants me to go in there. Oh, now we got a massive bus behind us. Oh, no. Oh, this is exactly how far you buses going to go. So, you will need to go around my colleague where you were previously. Okay. The daddy back. Okay. Thank you so much. Let's go today. Ah, two days. Yes. I think I'm going to come back later in pain.
You're really good at understanding people who are making you zeroing. I mean, I'm not sure on that one. You can communicate a lot through hand motions, though, and just making assumptions, which can also be dangerous. [screaming] We're done. You did it. All the way across the US, all the way across Germany, halfway through the Czech Republic, and we're almost to the start line. Wow. Had we have known all the prep, all the money, the logistics, I'm not sure we would have signed up. But we're here.
It's all going to be worth it. These are going to be some of the best memories of our lives. Bye, bus. Be good for two days. We'll see you in a couple days. As you're watching this video, we are already 2 weeks into the Mongol Rally. We've driven through five countries. And to say that this has been the adventure of a lifetime would be an understatement. It has been pure chaos in the best way possible. HERE WE GO. MARCO. [screaming] WITH THAT SAID, there's been no time for uploading footage or editing videos. So, you might not hear from us for a few weeks, but I promise it's going to be worth the wait because when we start
posting this series, we're going to go back to weekly videos. So, you're going to be getting double the content, and it's the best, most raw travel content we've ever posted. I cannot wait to start sharing these videos with you.
