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A worldly crew...

The three of us are recent college graduates with exciting and rewarding careers ahead of us, so why would we embark upon a journey which is guaranteed to push us to the very edge of our abilities!?! The answer is contained within our team name. Our team, “3FLP,” is driving to Mongolia this summer because we want to flip our perspective, flip our hearts, and flip our lives. When we finally pull into Ulaanbaatar and deliver our donations to the orphanage (our selected charity!), we believe a child will look back at us and see a wiser and more understanding face than the one which left England six weeks earlier. In our minds, this journey is about seeking Nelson Mandela’s concept of Ubuntu: going to see what the rest of the world is about and recognizing our intimate bond to each and every acre of it and the people who live there.

Parker

Parker is an aerospace engineer from Roanoke, Virginia. He attended Georgia Tech for his undergraduate education and will be entering MIT in 2014 for a double Masters in engineering and policy. Parker is an Eagle Scout and avid outdoorsman with a history of treks in Canada, England, France, Switzerland, Italy, India, and the United States. Beyond getting their car across Eurasia in one(ish) piece, Parker is looking forward to the people they will meet along the way and the cultures they will experience. He hopes to ride horses with the Kazakhs and take in the stars in the Gobi desert without an electric light within a hundred miles!

Riley

Riley will graduate from the Virginia Military Institute in 2014 with a degree in International Studies and Political Science and unlike the other two nerds he will not be going on to graduate school. Riley is an Eagle Scout who has a history of high adventure in the Midwest US, Florida Keys, and the boundary waters between the US and Canada. Riley's latest adventure was a bicycle trip across the US from San Francisco, CA to Yorktown, VA in the summer of 2012. He is most looking forward to watching the scenery change the further east they go and interacting with all the people along the way. He can only hope their rickety car will hold up on the 10,000 mile journey and that they carry enough duct tape with them to reattach what does fall off.

Emma

Emma graduated from Georgia Tech in 2012 with a degree in Environmental Engineering and is currently pursuing he Masters in Civil Engineering. Her area of focus is in bridge failure, and she greatly hopes that her degree will NOT come in handy while traveling across Eurasia! Emma is a Girl Scout Gold Award and has always been an avid traveler – often times enjoying exploring places that seem a tad extreme, such as a bike trip across the plains of Kenya! She is also a budding photographer who is happiest when a camera is in her hands. While racing in the Mongol Rally, Emma is most excited about meeting and getting to know the many people across Eurasia in addition to the other unique teams that the Mongol Rally attracts!

 

 

COME TRAVEL WITH US!

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