Put Foot Rally: 19 crazy days driving through 5 African countries
Imagine 150 teams driving in whatever cars from Cape Town, South Africa via Namibia, Botswana and Zambia to Malawi. Craziness guaranteed. And I came pretty unprepared to this adventure. My friends from Holland, Alina and Elliot, had sent out an email about a year ago with a link to putfootrally.com and the question who wants to join. It took me 5 minutes to decide. What I saw on the homepage: drive through 5 southern African countries, only for adventurers, support underprivileged kids and have a lot of fun on the way. I'm in! So while we formed a group Alina took over the first steps: rent us 2 cars and book accommodation for the checkpoint parties. Then for a long time nothing happened and I started my travels around the world. From far away with limited Internet I tried to follow the developments. Team members dropped out, new ones were found. Tasks were divided and slowly a rough route was made. So with minimum effort (read: book my flights and transfer money whenever someone ...