Photo: Drew Gurian

How about this for a vacation idea? Fly to Europe, buy a beat-up clunker, then try to make it from England to Mongolia in one piece. There’s no official route and no official rulebook. Photographer Drew Gurian and his brother, Scott, did just that this summer as participants in the Adventurists’ Mongol Rally. They bought 990ML 60-horsepower Nissan Micras, and after 53 days, 18 countries, a couple broken axles, and an emergency extraction, they crossed the finish line. We talked to to the New York City–based photographer about some of his most memorable times on the road.



Photo: Every day brought a different hole that we needed to be pulled out of. Here, our friends and adventure mates Rosi Moore-Fiander and Jane Box help us out of a crossing that proved too deep.