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 21 September

Posted on 21 September 2014 by DirkJan

Report of 21 September
Report by Angela

The first day in Spring time in Chili.
Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting. Waiting for the backpack, Arnaud, who still has not arrived and flies somewhere between Panama and Puerto Montt. Track & Trace does not work at all. So just we have to wait and see. Dirk is working at the Model T, now officially named Watson, but because it is raining cats and dogs it’s no use to go on.

Dirk is working on the Model T, Watson

We’re going to practice driving in the land rover, high gearing, low gearing, when you use high en low gearing, how fast you need to switch.
On we went to Puerto Varas where we are stranded in a restaurant. We drank a glass of wine and ate delicious fish soup. The plan to go to the salt pans and the volcano fell apart so we then went home.