Best Intentions Tea and Travel: A 2008 Mongol Rally Adventure

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Best Intentions Tea and Travel is comprised of three individuals with a common goal. Raise as much money as possible, while having the adventure of a lifetime. Survive to talk about it.

They've set out to complete the Mongol Rally 2008, a loose-form charity rally that covers one-third of the globe, starting in London, England and ending in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia. With luck, determination and your help and support, they will succeed. What's the latest Update?

The most common question we get here, at Best Intentions is "Why?" There are a million why's but the number one is the biggest, and that's our charity partners and the impact they have as a result of our donations. Read more about our charities.

Never heard of this insane and incredible event? Click here to learn more about The Mongol Rally and it's ever-growing legend The Mongol Rally Website

Sponsor Our Team - Be a Part of Best Intentions Tea and Travel

We desperately need your assistance on this adventure! We're going to be driving from London on July 19th, and setting out in a beater of a car in the name of charity and madness, and not stopping until we reach Ulaanbataar, Mongolia. If you'd like to sponsor us click below.

If you're interested in learning why you should bother, please read our Reasons to Join our Team list.

What will your sponsorship go towards? For businesses or organizations that wish to aid us on our journey, we've set up the link above to do small donations towards our overhead, as sponsorships. This money will go towards our car purchase, paperwork, titleing, mechanical costs, and transportation. We're personally taking on a burden of approximately 12,000 usd to make this happen, and any organization that wishes to contribute to sponsoring us, in addition to or in lieu of directly donating, we'll be glad to offer up our car's ad space, marketing information about your products on our website and blog, both video and web.

We've got high hopes for this charity drive, and any business partner we can get on board and participating, we promise to do everything in our power (within the guidelines of The Mongol Rally and the countries we'll be passing through) to promote, utilize, and expose your product and organization.

Our Charities - The Focus of our Trip

We're now able to accept direct-to-charity donations for our charities. We're using an amazing service Will We Make It? and are really excited about their service. It's a bit more flexible than some of the major charity hubs, and allows us to add and divy up our proceeds as we, and our sponsors, see fit. If you'd like to donate now, click on the image below to go directly there. We're not asking for much from each of you, $5 or $10 goes a long way towards our goal.

We are proud to announce that we've added the Mongolian Youth Development Foundation as our primary charity recipient. Working with BD's Mongolian Grill, we will center our efforts around gaining visibility to the MYDF and hopefully raising a ton of money for the foundation as well.

Mongolian Youth Development Foundation (MYDF) is non-governmental, non profit making organization with major emphasis on providing youth development programs in Mongolia and working to assist Mongolian youth in their development into active members of society, by providing social, educational, cultural and physical activities.

Mercy Corps Mongolia supports rural communities to meet their economic and social needs, helping individuals, families and communities to become more self-sufficient, diversified in their production, and better linked to local, regional and national markets.

Over the past five years Mercy Corps Mongolia has established a strong reputation across the vast Gobi region, and continues to work with business associations and local organizations to ensure a robust economy that preserves ancient traditions.

Currently they run the following projects in Mongolia: Gobi Regional Economic Growth Initiatives (Gobi Initiative), Rural Agribusiness Support Program (RASP) and the Training, Advocacy and Networking Programme. For more information visit Mercy Corps Mongolia on the web.

- Give a Ger Campaign ran by the Christina Noble Children's Foundation is an emergency fund established to provide families in danger of becoming homeless, or otherwise inadequately or dangerously accommodated, with a family home of a Mongolian Ger. We're currently exploring additional charities to aid and sponsor over the next six months.

The Team - Steven, Justin, and Bryan

One of the best things about this journey has been seeing everything slowly come together, and the dawning realization that I'd be a part of it, and that we'd make a tangible difference in the lives of people who haven't been given the fairest shake. I set about this with three other people over the course of the last two years, who expressed interest and one by one their committment, if not interest, waned and waned. I entered the 2008 Rally by myself. I paid my fees and decided that I'd go it alone. I realized that if I was crazy enough to do it, how much harder would it be to do alone anyways? Luckily, two of the best people I know stepped up to be a part of this. I could not be happier. It takes a certain type of person to dedicate a small fortune to participate, let alone a very flexible employer to facilitate an undertaking of this magnitute. The stars have aligned and we'll be making our way in July to London. Thanks for your help, support and interest. - Justin

Justin is a man of many facets, he makes videogames, he climbs volcanos, he's a dad and a husband, a former Air Force Special Ops Airman, an accomplished goalkeeper and quite possibly the world's worst ice hockey goalie and on the side he's an active independent professional wrestler, who has traveled the globe as The Bug, the Pest from Budapest.

Cloud has been publishing Boy on a Stick and Slither online (www.boasas.com) since 1999. While BOASAS is primarily a webcomic, it has appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Esquire magazine. He calls Brooklyn home.

Bryan, of Austin, Tx is a huge rally enthusiast, competing in SCCA rallycross during the 2003 season. Long-time tinkerer of anything mechanical, Bryan has spent his time as an amatuer lockpick, solver of rubik's cubes, paper airplane architect extraordinaire, and auto mechanic.

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