A charity tour for orphan children

Trudy and Dirk Regter from the Netherlands go on a world tour in a 1915 Ford Model T, covering all continents of the world. They are making this trip with the aim of raising money for orphans worldwide.

To date, they have driven 64,000 miles across 31 countries and have raised more than $45,000 spent on children's projects in Colombia and Bolivia. An earlier trip by Dirk in 2007 from Beijing to Paris in the Model T raised more than $140,000, of which 2 children's projects were built in Mongolia. The last part of their world tour,about 10,500 miles, takes them back home to the Netherlands via Asia. If you support the purpose of this journey, you can take ownership of some of these 10,500 miles of this final leg.

Buy your miles and thus contribute to a better future for orphans.

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Report 9 July

Posted on 9 July 2014 by DirkJan

Report 9 July
Report by Benno en Thecla

The model T team no 1

Today a relaxing day, but it isn’t day for laying backwards. Because the incoming part of the model T is just above the outcoming part, it gets to a astronomic heat. So they made a plan to make a new heat shield.
Although we are here in Huaraz on 3000 meters, de astronomic model T has to go much higher altitude. Thecla and Trudy go for sightseeing the city, while Benno and Dirk bath in coca leaves and the mathematical formulas of Stephan Hawkins.
They create a new heat shield who have to defy the flames and keep them on distance.
From our balcony we look around us to a twenty or more snow mountain peaks, beautiful and breathtaking! But we shall to find a way through.