So on this Rally we'll have NO support. That's right; if we fall in a ditch, lose a wheel or snap a fibula it's up to us to put ourselves back together again. And then there's the bandits. And the marmots (more on these later...)
Despite this, we decided it would be nice if you lovely people could follow our calamities, erm..we mean our successes, and find points on the map that they don't teach you in school. So a fine fellow called Nick Farrell at Yellowbrick Tracking saw humour in our campaign and thought we were daft enough to sponsor.
He even sent us a picture for our Yak-album.
He even sent us a picture for our Yak-album.
Thanks to Nick, we'll have an aptly named yellow, brick shaped thingy in our ambulance. It'll send out a beep every four hours into the universe, and then in seconds it'll come back down again via a fancy sounding 'iridium satellite network' to a map with our location! It's so trusted that proper adventurists and yachtsmen use them, including Sarah Outen - the youngest woman to row single-handed across the Indian Ocean and thereby a certified record breaker - as she circum-navigates the entire globe from London to London! www.sarahouten.com
We shall probably get lost daily. But the important thing is you'll know it before we will! Just don't tell our families.
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