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A charity tour for orphan children

Trudy and Dirk Regter from the Netherlands go on a world tour in a 1915 Ford Model T, covering all continents of the world. They are making this trip with the aim of raising money for orphans worldwide.

To date, they have driven 64,000 miles across 31 countries and have raised more than $45,000 spent on children's projects in Colombia and Bolivia. An earlier trip by Dirk in 2007 from Beijing to Paris in the Model T raised more than $140,000, of which 2 children's projects were built in Mongolia. The last part of their world tour,about 10,500 miles, takes them back home to the Netherlands via Asia. If you support the purpose of this journey, you can take ownership of some of these 10,500 miles of this final leg.

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    Wednesday June 12th

    Posted on 12 June 2013 by willy

    Las Vegas – Los Angeles

    Wake up early, because it is a long trip from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.

    Frank and Sukhi Ross say good bye and we start our 225 miles long trip.

    departure

    departure

    We leave Las Vegas and Kees, our mascot, checked the direction.

    kees out of Las Vegas

    kees out of Las Vegas

    We travel over the mountains into the dessert and take Interstate 15.

    A lot of traffic and many big trucks are passing us.

    interstate

    interstate

    During our rip we see the Joshua trees and the yucca’s in the dessert.

    dessert

    dessert

    At once the Land Rover gives some troubles for the first time during our World tour.

    The engine does not react on the foot throttle.

    Dirk looks under the hood if he can find something wrong.

    looking engine

    looking engine

    Het stops the engine and than start it again. It runs and we continue our trip.

    We decided to look for a Land Rover garage in Los Angeles.

    We have to cross the Mountain pass of 4731 feet high, so we have to go in the low gear.

    When we arrive in Los Angeles, we can park the Model T in the world-famous garage of Jay Leno, between al kinds of beautiful classic cars.

    Garage

    Garage

    Here it is a good place for the Model T to have a rest after such a long trip.

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