typically, north america, the bonneville salt flats and the black rock desert are where it has all happenedfive decades but we wanted to see if there was actually somewhere better. now, we were very lucky, we got the support of swansea university, to actually search the whole globe, for the first time ever, to actually do a full geo remote sensing survey to try and find a place that was flat enough and long enough, and also flooded regularly, to actually repair and heal the surface, so it remained a smooth, dry lake bed. how many places like that were there in the world of 10—15 miles in length? and swansea produced a map of all the places that might be viable. we then spent a lot of time with google earth and a lot of time looking at notjust the surface itself, the weather factors, but also all the other bits, how do you get there, what is the geopolitical situation like? by the time we had been through all that, we finished up with a list of a couple of dozen that i went to visit. this was the best place i saw anywhere in the world. but the best place in the world still needed a little ti