#i got a lot of inspo from vlogs. i didn't watch this one while researching; only found it a lot later; but it's by far the best

[foegs]

But what about the rally fic?

it's a little tricky because my goal with this one was just a road trip aesthetic in general, and it was supposed to be set in the states. so you know, buying candy at gas stations and driving through the nevada desert. I guess as soon as I knew that it was going to be about mongolia instead, it was just camping scenes. little tents clustered around a dead campfire under the stars, ringed by similarly shitty little cars, on a vast open plain marred only by tire tracks in the dirt highway.

or maybe it was baku, staring at the stripped bones of both a street circuit and a shared failure, and realising that no one cares as soon as the spotlight is off. definitely swimming in the sea off the rocks of the dubrovnik city wall. sunrise balloon spotting in cappadocia, sleeping on the bare tarmac of an industrial harbour. more scenes yet to come 👀

slightly tangential but I'm begging you to watch this video (2 hour mongol rally 2013 vlog by my favourite team, skip to ~7 mins in to miss the fundraising blurbs. two south africans, an australian, and a british guy taking the route across the caspian, the deep cut through eastern turkmenistan, and the pamir highway <3 they are my besties)