Ian, the Dodge and Rex have a last look out over Bondi beach before loading the car into its container to be shipped to Bangkok.

The Dodge and the Toyota support vehicle were loaded into containers on Friday 14 March for shipping from Sydney to Bangkok. The Whippet will follow from Fremantle 2 weeks later. The five travelling crew will all finally gather in Bangkok on Tuesday 22 April to begin the journey, first up through Laos, into China, over the Tibetan Plateau to the Taklimakan Desert to follow the old Silk Road west to Kashgar and on to Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.