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Black Sea Run: Europe's #1 Adventure Road Trip
12-20-2011, 04:35 AM
I'm British so why not buy a car in my my name?
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Black Sea Run: Europe's #1 Adventure Road Trip
12-20-2011, 08:01 AM
Guys - I've done a road trip in Europe, from France all the way to Bulgaria, stopped for a day in several cities like Prague, Budapest, Bratislava, Belgrade...
It sounds more fun that it actually is. You spend half your time on the road and there is nothing to see alongside the highway.
3k miles in 14 days means half of your time will be spent cramped in the seats of your Trabant or Fiat 126 that does 80km/h on a good day.
And when your vacation time is over, you will wonder if you wouldn't have been better off just hitting the beach or picking a city and staying there for the whole 14 days.
Seriously, just do a quick and dirty calculation: how much time of your precious 2 weeks off per year will you have to spend on the road - and being on that road is not much fun, no sexy hitchhikers, just fields with cows grazing on both sides. When you could have been day gaming, or resting from a hard night's partying out.
Now this goes for guys with a day job. If you are a freelancer or a traveling international playboy, then certainly go for it.
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Black Sea Run: Europe's #1 Adventure Road Trip
12-20-2011, 10:34 AM
I took a closer look at the site and think that it may not be a good idea to get me involved in something like this. The pics show a euro-hipster type vibe which would send me into a psycotic state. I would go to hunt the "racers" down in a mad max type fashion as Ali mentioned before. I can't help it.
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Black Sea Run: Europe's #1 Adventure Road Trip
12-20-2011, 11:09 AM
I'm working on logistics. It's going to be fluid so you can drop in when you want and join with whomever for your own style of travel/game. I think the dates August 3-17 are ideal.
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Black Sea Run: Europe's #1 Adventure Road Trip
12-20-2011, 11:12 AM
Quote: (12-20-2011 10:34 AM)el mechanico Wrote:
I took a closer look at the site and think that it may not be a good idea to get me involved in something like this. The pics show a euro-hipster type vibe which would send me into a psycotic state. I would go to hunt the "racers" down in a mad max type fashion as Ali mentioned before. I can't help it.
Maybe we should just skip the road trip and do an international meetup instead. Logistics would be much easier. No sense in letting other pursuits eat into game time.
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Black Sea Run: Europe's #1 Adventure Road Trip
12-20-2011, 12:11 PM
I think it'd be very difficult to pull of a road trip with just guys from this forum. You might need to open it up a bit, the idea of having to capture a flag in each place might make it more interesting.
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Black Sea Run: Europe's #1 Adventure Road Trip
12-22-2011, 07:01 PM
Come on, gang. Being timid is no way to go about this idea!
I'd be down for a 2 week binge. The major challenge will be logistics - finding decent accommodation for such short time periods in so many locations must necessarily be expensive. How to get around that?
Assuming I'm in Europe at the time (likely), I'm signing up.
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Black Sea Run: Europe's #1 Adventure Road Trip
01-01-2012, 10:35 AM
Montreal instead?