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The 2CV Alaska Challenge
This site contains all the bulletins, both from the 2CV Alaska Challenge and the dress rehearsal in the Outer Hebrides. If you want to go directly to the bulletins click on the links below. Alternatively, you can read the Introduction and follow the links afterwards.
INTRODUCTION:
In July 1999 the good ship Christiane sailed from Rotterdam, Holland, bound for the east coast USA. On board this creaking cargo ship was Rob Godfrey and two Citroen 2CV motor cars. The Christiane was supposed to take 10 days to cross the Atlantic, but a series of misadventures resulted in a 4 week voyage. Rob Godfrey spent those 4 weeks in the company of 25 Croatian sailors and a mad Captain. Rob Godfrey says that he will now be in therapy for the rest of his life.
This voyage was the first leg of a journey to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, a journey that took Rob Godfrey and Jose Oostveen 8000 road miles across North America. During this epic journey they suffered, amongst other things, mechanical breakdown, brake failure and physical injury.
In Fairbanks, Alaska, Jose left Rob and flew back to Europe. Undeterred, Rob found himself a vulcanised companion in the form of Jamie the Love Doll, and thereby became not only the first man ever to drive a Citroen 2CV all the way up the Dalton Highway to the Arctic Ocean, but also the first man ever to cross the arctic circle with a fully inflated sex doll.
Throughout the 9 week journey from Europe to arctic Alaska, Rob sent regular bulletins to The 2CV Alaska Challenge web site, giving a total of 24 bulletins. These bulletins were written 'on the hoof', often late at night in hotels and restaurants, and they are a faithful record of what those mad 9 weeks were like...
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