Oha Beach

July 24, 2013 by Chris 2 Comments

Friday July 19

Good Morning, this is Team Dixie Chickens and it’s been 2 days since we attended our last party!

The Mongol Rally Checkpoint Beach Party is today at Oha Beach in Constanta, Romania, on the shores of the Black Sea!

Around 3am we had Cujo barking up a storm as he traipsed through our tent site across from the Pomi.  Clearly, we’d squatted on his turf and he had no issues letting us know.   At 6am, Sarah said she was enjoying the wind chimes (AKA cow bells).  Don was not buying her romantic take on the situation – and figured we’d better get out of dodge before pissing off the local herdsman out with their cattle.  We were packed up and on the road by 7:15 am – the beach beckoned!

The mountains quickly gave way, back to the flat agricultural fields with their endless miles of MORE corn, hay, and sunflowers.

We pulled into the beach/campground around 3pm.  Some ran right off for the beach (WITH the cooler of COLD beer!!) which we were lamenting greatly as the rest of us unpacked the gear off of the roof rack and set up the tent site.

The beach here had a BEAUTIFUL set up with it’s own open air bar, chaise lounges and oversized stuffed bean bag body sized pillows under huge white sun shades. There were a ton of Ralliers relaxing and enjoying the warm water, nice breeze and respite from the road.

Hammocks hung on poles out in the water, along with wooden rafts for the on water fun.

There was a huge map on the wall for all of us to draw in our routes &  sign.

This was the perfect venue to spend the last day with 3 of our team mates who would be leaving the bus tomorrow  – Lina and Johnny were headed home to the UK (and REAL jobs – posh!) and Cale was headed off to Germany to see some friends before heading back stateside.  .

They’ve been wonderful and entertaining to have on the bus and their absence will be duly felt.  Efforts to convince them to stay, despite their wanting to, were unfortunately unsuccessful.

I joined the 3 of them down the beach for a farewell dinner, and lovely walk back along the water to a raucous rally party which had finally gotten underway!  I bailed out around 2am but could hear the thumpy thumpy music for quite some time as I drifted in / out of sleep in my tent.

The NEXT official Rally party……Ulan Baataar – at the FINISH LINE!  – There will undoubtedly be some MAJOR stories to tell there!!