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... and welcome to our website. Just a quick introduction. We're Trevor and Jan from Lancashire (UK), we're in our mid-forties, our 3 boys have fled the nest, we both work in IT, love being outdoors, are passionate about scuba diving and this is the story of our mid-life crisis :o)
We're really glad you found us and hope that you enjoy following us as we prepare for our gap year and go on our adventure of a lifetime!
This is how it all kicked off on 27 June 2008...
During our trip we'll be raising money for SOS Children's Villages. The money we are raising is going towards building a much-needed medical centre for an SOS Village in the process of being built, Chipata in East Zambia. The village will provide homes for 180 children orphaned by malaria or AIDS. Please consider sponsoring us by donating some money to them. We'll be visiting a few projects during our travels to show you how your money's being spent. Click on the SOSCV picture below or to your right under "Sponsor Us" for more info. Or to donate, click on the "Donate" button on "Justgiving" widget/pic on your right.
So please sponsor us now! Come on, folks, these innocent children need your help. Give them a chance to have a family, to be loved, to be educated - give them a chance, that they wouldn't have without you, to succeed.
We've since had an update - we are elated and feeling sick with anticipation all at the same time! We have managed to gather together and align the planets and we are now able to drive through Egypt.
HOORAY!!! 
Thank you so much to everyone who has helped us to make this happen. We are forever grateful. It means that at last we can fulfil our original dreams and follow the trip as we had planned, driving all the way from UK to Southern Africa.
So, now we leave from UK and drive through France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia and Botswana (click here for an updated list with dates). This will take us till May 2010 and if we still have enough left in the kitty and sufficient wanderlust, we'll have another 6 months either up the west coast of Africa or through India, Nepal, Thailand and back home via Russia. Still thousands of miles away and we need make no decisions yet. Joy!!
Hints & Tips
Just a couple of things to note that may help you navigate around our website. The site's been designed more as a blog to make it a bit easier to post to whilst we are away. If you want to follow our story from the beginning, click on the blog link at the top of the page and away you go (blog entries are "latest first" - this group contains all entries ever published). You can also use the Archive or Categories links alongside to narrow the blog entries down to "per month basis" (Archive) or "Training" or Vehicle Preparation" (Categories) and all pages you're interested in will be listed. Alternatively, use the Search facility for a broader browse.
Please leave us a comment or 2 - we'd love your input or hints for other sites to visit.
Happy reading.
