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 4 October

Posted on 4 October 2014 by DirkJan

Report 4 October
By Dirk

Cochrane-Paso Roballos 136 km.
Today we want to cross the border from Chile to Argentina via Paso Roballos.
The first 20 miles we follow the Carretera Austral before we go into the mountains to the border.
A beautiful route were we see flamingo’s and condors.

to the border 1

to the border 2

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Condors

Flamingo’s

The border is only 6 month open during the summertime.
The people at the border are happy that we pass because there are only 5 passengers in one week.

the border

welcome in Argentina

After we crossed the border we took the wrong road; a road that is closed because of the snow.
A big sign gives us a warning for this but Arnaud and Dirk thinks that it is an old sign from the wintertime.
The road becomes very bad and after 10 miles we decided to go back.