Ulaan Book Tour

How good is that name? Ulaan Book Tour? Ulaan Baatar? Geddit?

After our first meeting with the rally guys on Saturday, we were encouraged to start getting our message out to people asap. All well and good, except that we hadn't even got a team name at that point.

Lucy teaches English as a foreign language (or whatever it's referred to these days) and a large number of her students of late have hailed from Central Asia, Kazakhstan in particular. The planned purpose of our trip, besides allowing us to see the most fascinating parts of the world (in my opinion anyway), will be to try and help out a teaching charity in Mongolia with things such as English textbooks and other materials - whatever they need and we can get really.

Lucy has proven herself to be the brains of the operation so far (proving that her Marketing Masters isn't going to waste) and came up with the team name on Monday, incorporating our destination, cargo and, well, fact that we're doing kind of a tour to get there.

Our graphic designer mate Andy has magnanimously agreed to design our team logo and potentially a micro-site 'pro bono', so hopefully our home page on the official charity website and general web presence will shortly start to take shape. You can check out the current home page here, although admittedly it's still in the very early stages....

Ulaan Book Tour -  Mongolia Charity Rally 2010

Just for good measure, the justgiving site is also up and running - our goal is to raise £1500 for the rally charity to cover qualification for the event; we'll also be looking to raise some funds to cover basic expenses if possible and will no doubt come up with another, more personal charity as well. In the meantime, the Go Help fundraising site for the team is here: Ulaan Book Tour - Go Help Justgiving site.

Don't worry about making a note of the websites just now - I'll remind you about them from "time to time".