The Great American Trek - South African adventure motorcycle documentary

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Halfadog

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Heya everybody!

We are two South African doctors (a married couple) who are planning a yearlong trip from Argentina to Alaska in 2014. We will be leaving in September 2014, going from Antarctic to Arctic Circle and will be traveling through 18 different countries over the course of 12 months, each on our own bike.

We are focusing our trip around raising awareness and funds for charity. Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) have agreed to be our main associated charity as well as Kind Cuts for Kids, a charity centered on providing vital surgery to children in undeveloped countries and disadvantaged communities (https://www.kindcutsforkids.net/). We will be visiting their sites along the way and spending time with the people they help. We will also be visiting a number of smaller local charities along the way, helping in any way we can.

Meg (my wife & riding partner) has also recently been diagnosed with TB, after picking it up from working in a government hospital. Although her prognosis is good, it gave us quite a scare as you can imagine. So we are also focusing the work around education and the treatment of TB in the third world.

We have been offered appearances on radio (Gareth Cliff and Ballz radio) and spots in magazines (Bike SA and Myfiets). We have also recently been approached by a well known production company who want to make a documentary of the trip, the details of which are still being finalized. This has helped us to secure a few great sponsorships as well.

So if anybody has any suggestions / advice / contacts / sponsorship ideas etc. etc. (BADLY NEEDED!) it will be greatly appreciated, we are currently still collecting the gear and cash to do the trip

We have a Facebook page, Twitter account and a Blog which has JUST been put together, so some tweaking (not twerking) is still to come.

PLEASE gooi us a few likes/follows and shares here and there, we will be lank grateful!

Thanks!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greatamericantrek
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreatAmericanTr
Website/Blog: www.greatamericantrek.com
 
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