Initial Route Meeting July 2010

I’m a bit late with this post so I’ll start with an apology, sorry!

However, when we met to discuss the initial route, this website was a mere glint in my eye so I’ll not chastise myself too much.

Way back in July 2010, a good friend of mine, Boastie, came over to help me figure out the route for teapotone. At the time I had four charities in mind, Riders for Health, Born Free Foundation, SSAFA (SSAFA are no longer one of my charities, see here) & St Christopher’s Hospice. The idea was as I travelled around the world I would visit the various projects which are affiliated with these charities around the world. There I could help out where I could, get to know the people of the area, and help raise funds for them through awareness & PR via this website, blog, forthcoming book and DVD. As Riders for Health is the official motoGP charity, and because I’ll be doing the trip on a sports bike, I came up with the idea of visiting each of the motoGP circuits as I travelled around the world. I’d complete a lap of each one on the actual bike I’m dragging through the deserts, jungles, mud, rocks, and highways of the globe.

So…, we plotted all of these onto a big map stuck on my living room wall (I had to sell my table and chairs, and remove my nice big mirror just to fit it in – see the commitment I have!) After doing this the route just seemed to jump out at me. So that was that, I had a route, I had an idea behind the trip, I had my charities in mind…… let’s go!

From here we set about producing an initial info pack that we could send to the prospective charities, then set up meetings with each of them and take it from there. Simples!…….. stay tuned folks.