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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September 9 – day 80

Posted on 9 September 2012 by Michiel

We are in Kenia, for us it’s the third country, for Dirk and Trudy the eleventh. We’re going to have a tough ride ahead of us, especially for the cars, the roads are terrible, extremely big holes, rocks and some kind of gravel washboard that shakes the cars almost into pieces. We have our first flat tire and because of the shaking a door lock of the Land Rover came loose. Both problems are quickly fixed and we arrive in a small town at the edge of the desert in a place called Turbi. We sleep in simple cabins next to the police station, the police men are very helpful in providing a guard for the night. After a few beers we go to bed, exhausted.

Casper & Arnaud