Catching up again...

Apologies for the silence...
We had a chaotic moment when at the last minute we had to change the team. Dont ask why....Anyway, its on with the show.
We flew from Jakarta to Banjarmasin on Tuesday. As mentioned in the previous post, the cars did arrive on Monday evening, but did not arrive at the hotel until the wee hours of Tuesday morning. Our gratitude and appreciation to our friends D, R, E, Q who helped to drive the car from the docks to the hotel.
As we arrived at the hotel, we immediately went to the car to start up the engine, make superficial checks to the exterior and interior, re-packed some items then went to register with the officials. We are officially number 131.
We then went to lunch (pizza) then went on to fill up the gasoline (main tank and the jerrycans). After filling the tanks, we went for the scrutineering. We passed with some minor notes. Checkout the photos of the 4wd vehicles on our photo site here .

On Wednesday, we did some rechecking of the G-Wave equipment as some additional parts came in from Batam. Pretty much all day was spent in briefings and meetings with the event officials, and other members of the Media Team. Uploaded the route waypoints to the GPS'(main and backup). Wednesday night it rained lightly.

Thursday morning 04:30 AM.
Final packing and preparations for flag off from the Governors official residence.
07:00 AM: Flag off. The trip has just begun. The first stage is from Balikpapan to Palangkaraya. We had heard that the roads are flooded up to a meter high. Cars were being ferried across flooded areas by raft. We will see what happens.

To be continued...