Heading out on our own...

Well, Team Steel Camel have been doing some thinking recently.

Admittedly mostly we’ve been thinking about food, and adventure.

However we’ve also been thinking about the best way to go about driving to Mongolia and raising money for our chosen charity, Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation (they’re pretty swell after all).

We had, up until now, been looking at a couple of organisations that arrange for large groups to drive from London to Mongolia. However, both seem to want quite a bit of money for the privilege. I’m sure that there is very good reason for this, however we came to the conclusion that there is nothing stopping us from just getting in a car and driving to Mongolia (a bit like getting in the car and going to the shops, just 9,999 miles further) – there is no reason for us to be paying large ‘entry fees’ or ‘car deposits’ and raising a minimum amount of money (quite a large minimum) for someone else’s chosen charity.

We want to maximise the amount of money we can raise for WGCF, so we are heading out on our own. We know this is likely to mean more hassle – planning a route that makes getting visas slightly easier, and figuring out what on earth we are going to do with the car when we get to Ulan Batoor. But we don’t shirk away from such challenges!

If anyone knows of a worthy charity in Mongolia that might want a free car, drop us a line (and if anyone - Zissou - wants to join us for the ride, let us know). In the meantime, we’ll be turning to Google to try and find one ourselves!