I have these friends I met last year during  The Great Race and they just left for Panama today from my house, in Norman, OKlahoma.  They have covered 30,000 miles already.    Pat and Ali Schulte at   www.bumfuzzle.com  are shipping the bus to South Africa and driving the East Coast up to Europe.

     We spent the last couple of days getting the rear brake drum off to fix the leaking wheel cylinder.  It had to be cut off.  The expert VW guys at Larry's VW repair shop in OKC, OK dropped everything to help them out.  They even had a replacement 58 brake drum right there. 

     They update their website every couple of days.  You may be on their route?  Send them an email.