Firstly we have to send the worlds biggest thank you to all the wonderful people that managed to pull together and help us with the tyre purchasing!
We are now the proud owners of six new goodyear aggressive looking tyres that make our car look all pimped out and brand new, and now sporting brand new names as well.
1-the balding conckuati moose 2-Deep blue columbians 3-James www.asclme.org 4-betty’s bay noodle 5-first ascent and friends 6- Hugo ( the spare)
We won’t list everyone here, and unfortunately we had a hard time combining peoples names and such into acronyms so if anyone reads this and knows they helped with a tyre and has a brain flash of naming brilliance we are open to suggestions!
The names will be painted on as we move further afield into Russia (we thought having the names on as we crossed the border into Russia might make us prime target for car searching by border police, but in hindsight that would not have mattered because we are a bit loud regardless…)
So we are now heading towards Moscow, after spending an amazing month in Norway, and we are definitely feeling the chill in the North so far.
So far we have managed to film WWF and the National Guard cleaning up one of the worst oil spills in Norway’s history. We Interviewed WWF regarding their volunteer program, and marine conservation initiatives. We filmed and interviewed the NGO Friends of the Earth and SWAN, regarding their work in sea bird rehabilitation at the site of the oil spill,and have done some amazing diving in the fjords (Linda’s dry suite unfortunately for her flooded during one particularly cold dive at 8 degrees,very funny for all but her). And we have met some amazing people like Mr Album, Lena Hulme and Henning Roed just to name a few.
Our website has been updated with photos of the Norway sections and we look to have blogs and projects posted in the next few days as the hotels in Russia seem to have amazing internet connections!
All the Best
Mike and Linda
