140 Days Remaining

With it getting closer an closer until we set off on the rally, we need to get somemore things sorted, ultimately this leads to a mountain of paperwork, the visa's for all the countries is interesting, there's no reason why we should be declined but if we don't get it sorted soon then it'll be one almighty rush!

The adventurists are meant to provide a magic visa sorting service but as yet we haven't heard anything, so bring on the paperwork!

There's an adventurists tea party in the 7th March for our American brothers across the pond. Not many details have been set, well really only the date and city so far, but I've managed to get cheap flights over there for a week to meet the other teams and have a bit of fun. I've managed to organize another night out over there with the rolling cones, who have a team member living there, so that should take the hassel of finding places out of the equation. Also Mike has decided to join me on this mini adventure, so I'm sure we'll be able to tear up New York for those few nights. The hotel I've booked is an eclectic mix of traditional motel with live-in residents and the set of several films scenes over the years so once again should be interesting. It cheap cheerful & you share bathrooms, watch this space on my verdicts...

We're slowly adding more sponsors to our ranks, but as always not as fast as we'd like, ideally we want to be able to cover everywhere but the windows with sponsorship stickers, so we'll have too wait an see how that pans out.

In terms of media coverage we haven't done too bad to date, I've arrange articles and interviews, but all for regional media outlets, nothing on a national scale has materialized unfortunately as yet.

I have been in regular contact with Jen from the Mercy Corps, she's been really helpful in Organising press releases as well as plenty of mercy corps branded merchandise, we've got enough stickers, badges etc. To sink the titanic!

The car is running great, other than me being the lucky one to push as Paul wheelspan it out from a muddy patch during the latest photo session. I've decided that we have to at the very least take a couple of planks of wood to help the tires out of sticky situations!

All in all things are going well.

As always I'll keep you all upto date with our latest adventures!