A friend and I are involved in a charity car rally, facing 8,000 miles of pot-holes, strange borders and questionable food (and probably hygiene after 8k miles!) to raise money for Save The Children. We aim to raise a minimum of £1000 for Save The Children, plus we shall donate our vehicle to a charity called CDPF (Children's' Development and Protection Fund) when we reach Mongolia.
The Mongolia Charity Rally is a pan-continental drive across five mountain ranges, two deserts and enough barren and pot-holed roads, paths and terrain to ensure we'll swagger like John Wayne for a good few weeks after we complete the drive. We will start in London on the 11th July and our final destination is the great Mongol capital of Mongolia, beyond the Gobi desert, Ulaanbaatar, several weeks later. We are aiming to complete the rally in 3 weeks or less.
My team mate Dan is from Newcastle Australia, he will be flying to the UK to join up with me. We will be updating a daily blog and hope you guys will follow our adventures. Certainly going to be the toughest thing i have ever done.
The rule is we need to raise some cash for our chosen charity before we can set off. I would be grateful if members here could donate a few bucks to our Just Giving Page, in return I will get some nice LOC club stickers made up (some chrome ones are sweet?) and I will send them out to you before we leave as a thank you gesture. Also I will add you to the clubs thank you list.
They accept paypal too ;) Makes life easier
Our website is almost complete, I have a few things to add still http://www.roadwarriors.org.uk
I hope our LOC community spirit may be able to help for a few bucks.
cheers guys.
Steve
Here are a few bits about the trip, here is a funny video i found on the Mongol Rally
We wont be in a convoy like the following, we are on our own. Not a place to break down in no mans land.