Breakin’ Legs on the Dance Floor!

Every year, the Adventurists host a fantastic party in a 13th century castle in the Czech Republic, not far from the German border.  Mongol Rally teams stop and enjoy this fiesta on their way across the continent and Team Shoebaru …

Goodwood to Czechout

On Saturday, July 14, 2012 we participated in the Festival of Slow at the Goodwood Raceway as guests of the The Adventurists.  For those that don’t know, the Festival of Slow is the annual event that is the send-off for …

We have the Shoebarus!

Very exciting news!  The Southampton port authorities and our delightful port agent John successfully exterminated the Virginian spiders (or as Joe likes to say, the Southampton spiders who crawled into the container to escape the British rain)!   We retrieved the …

Visa Magic

In celebration of the receipt of our Libyan visas, here are a few random DC embassy tips for your next off-the-beaten-path journey:

  • Have a question or concern relating to a visa application? Need to push the entry restrictions? No, they

Circle of Death?

After months of hard work, our Left and Right shoes were ready to ship. What should have been a quick and easy run down I-64 turned into a potential taste of things to come this summer.

For those of you …

Updates (& Packing)

We spent the weekend putting the final touches on the cars and packing them up for shipment to the United Kingdom. Very exciting!

We’re bringing a lot of automotive supplies, so we’re keeping a “clean car” and a “dirty car”. …

A Few (Major) Updates

Wow, what a month! The team has been super-busy with preparations these last few weeks: getting the cars shoe-d, securing visas, securing sponsors, coordinating events, managing the shipping of the cars, etc. etc. As you can see by the previous …

License Plates Have Arrived!

The Commonwealth of Virginia came through today with the successful delivery of the license plates for our second Shoebaru Subaru, the right one!

As far as the left shoe?  It is getting some mechanical TLC before the major “shoe-ing” begins!  …

Shoebaru Twobaru!

We had a left shoe, and now we’ve got a right shoe as well! Step 1 is complete and we are now moving on to deal with the mechanical issues of the vehicles to get them ready for our epic …