Hey guys,

Please take 5 minutes out of your day to read the following: we would really appreciate it and it means a lot to us.

After fours years of talking about it, we've bitten the bullet and entered the 2010 Mongol Rally.

What is it, we hear you cry with barely-containable anguish. Well, simply put, on 24th July this year We are going to get in a car and drive it 10,500 miles across freezing steppes, scorching desert and AK-47 wielding petty bureaucrats to UlaanBaatar, the capital of Mongolia, all in the name of some really worthwhile charities. But it gets harder- these are the rules:

NO SET ROUTE

NO SUPPORT TEAM

LESS THAN A 1 LITRE ENGINE

RAISE £1000 FOR THE RALLY CHARITIES

OH, AND DO IT IN A MONTH

We have chosen the Mercy Corps as the Rally charity that we will be supporting. Mercy Corps works in Mongolia to support rural communities through economic, agricultural and educational programmes. Their TAN project, named after an ancient mongolian blend of medicinal herbs, combines local resources to help rural Mongolians build a stronger economy and civil society, all the while preserving important traditions.

WHERE YOU COME IN

We realise that times are tough and things may well be tighter than they were a year ago. But in times like these, no-one suffers more than Charities and the people they support.

We would massively appreciate any amount you could spare, it really would mean a lot to us and even more to the children and adults you will be helping.

Please do donate, and remember to check for updates to our preparations and journey on http://www.theadventurists.com/ulaan-banter.

We're also supporting Orbis, the flying eye hospital. You can find our other fundraising page here: http://www.justgiving.com/ulaan-banter.