Tagged With: Put Foot Rally
Magical Malawi!
Good bye Zambia (for now) and hello Magical Malawi. In the very short distance we have traveled after leaving Zambia yesterday morning, Malawi has managed to bathe us in her charms! The roads are good, more open, the landscape is beautiful and even the police check points seem nicer somehow (the police are more like … Continue reading
Running Repairs
We woke up on the morning of the 27th to find Kevin looking very sorry for himself with a more than sagging roof rack. It had probably been broken for a while with us blissfully ignorantly driving along – lalalalalala…life is golden….lalalalala. But with some bad roads ahead we needed to get things fixed up … Continue reading
The Smoke that Thunders
Between the shoe drop and the checkpoint party (numero dos) we got to go see Victoria Falls! Many kinds of impressive.
So challenging!
Travel in Africa, particularly Southern Africa is extremely challenging and uncomfortable! Check out the kind of conditions we have had to endure over the last 3 days – how we have managed I don’t know: We have been astounded by the presence of Protea Hotels in Southern Africa. While researching our Rally Route we realised … Continue reading
Shoe Drop
We spent our morning helping out with the Put Foot Foundation’s shoe drop at a small primary school in Livingstone. The morning started with a parade of all the put foot crew cars through the streets of Livingstone. The little mini lead the police escorted parade from the camp site to the school. We were … Continue reading
First stop Namibia-Keetmanshoop!
Our first stop after leaving the start line in Cape Town(Only) 1000km down the road was at Quiver Tree Forest Rest Camp in Keetmanshoop! We arrived in the dark and were very happy to have a bed to rest our tired heads on in the very cool igloo type room we stayed in. We went … Continue reading
Generosity from Germany!!!
Thank you Clause and Michael from Germany for their generous donation to Put Foot! We met them at Ndhovo River Lodge in Namibia while sitting on the deck looking out onto the beautiful Okavongo River! One of the greatest things about this rally has been meeting cool people along the way, from all over the … Continue reading
Check Point 1 – Done!
A tired Kev and team pulled into Toshari Lodge at about 3 on the 21st. 1900 long, dusty km’s down, 7100 to go. We all pitched our tents on a thin strip of grass next to a walk way. 60 crews, not much space. The sundowners started early, apparently the drive was thirsty work for … Continue reading
Camping in a car
Not just for the sake of alliteration! Pete and Amanda’s mattress got a puncture in the night and brought to an abrupt end the string of four nights of camping in a tent. Camping has been fun and rekindled all the childhood memories but when you are on the move and constantly setting up and … Continue reading
Danger Donations
As you have probably noticed…we have been a little quiet on posting and updating you on our progress in the Put Foot Rally. This is due to a number of factors including limited internet connectivity and endless hours on the road but mostly due to the dangerous nature of what we are doing. We are … Continue reading