Dear Diary (Can I call you Put Foot?), Mom, you better not be reading this. So began many a boyhood journal entry. I fretted as a little bloke in my…
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9000 KM
19 DAYS
6 COUNTRIES
1 UNRELIABLE VEHICLE.
This is the adventure that separates the men from the boys and the hunters from the hunted. A journey which could take anywhere from 19 days to never as we attempt to outrun the African wilderness.
Ladies and Gentlemen the Put Foot Rally is a killer trek through 6 countries, 6 checkpoints, and 6 parties to celebrate surviving one more day, switching currencies and road conditions, while meeting the school children and putting shoes on their feet and probably new wheels on the vehicle.
HERE IS A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT OUR LACK OF PLAN
Somewhat wiggly route plan complete with little intimidating men at border crossings
HELP US
PROVIDE SHOES AND SAVE RHINOS,
ONE BREAKDOWN
AT A TIME.
This year our charity is The Putfoot Foundation.
As Put footers, we will raise money and make stops to place new shoes on the feet of shoeless schoolchildren and save orphaned rhinos.
FREDDY
Frederic Chanut, 32, aka Freddy, is an adept of corn chips + salsa and often watch internet comic strips.
Freddy brings to the team his … iPod full of outdated music, a driving genre of his own and humour that will definitely make Michael cringe way before hitting Perth outer suburbs.
MICHAEL
Michael Scholz, 31, aka Micha or Scholle, is a passionate soccer player & off-road specialist with his Jeep Wrangler Rubicon.
The major assets Michael brings to the team are his ability to manage a project from start, his high level planning/project management skills.
Ladies and Gentlemen The Putfoot Rally is an African Safari without the guide, where we may be the wildest, hairiest animals of all.
There are few rules, lots of lawlessness, and no support along the way. We must rely on ourselves and our questionable skills to navigate mammoth potholes, starving lions, roadways that use the term as loosely as the dirt we drive on, potential carjackings, swimming with sharks, and being locked up for public profanity.
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All our adventures and the stash of cash raised for a number of charities
wouldn’t have been possible without those legends.
Invasive cold, biblical remoteness, and a vehicle so notoriously temperamental it makes John McEnroe look like the Dalai Lama.
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COVERAGE
Our travel malarkey managed to attract us worldwide coverage.
The kind our mums won’t be proud of…
