Sponsor & Supporter Update 001

As I write this, the lightweight, aircraft-grade aluminium poles should be making their way from Torquay (Vic) to Alice Springs. (Finally, I say.) So, in a couple weeks I will be able to test the 25-30kg cart that will haul 150kg of water, food and equipment across the Simpson Desert. This is about a month or more later than I would have liked to start testing the cart, but it should be okay. The main concerns are that the cart can haul the weight successfully, fitting the harness system to maximise drive, and to translate the hill and sand walking with a 30kg pack that I have been doing to hauling a cart.

I have been training hard: three-times a week carrying 30kg on one-hour power-walks into the granite hills around Alice Springs; weekend extended walks into the ranges and sandy creeks of the East MacDonnell Range. This routine will continue in the weeks remaining.

There are still a few potential sponsors I am waiting to hear back from: PowerWater, Tiger Airways, Rotary, CameraHouse. And I will be trying to get a few tanks of fuel from local petrol stations to help cover the 3000km of driving to and from Bedourie and Mt Dare.

The website will be updated very soon to include more details of the expedition and the water conservation aims. I will let you know when it has been updated.

So, with just under seven weeks to go before the expedition departs, things are a little behind schedule, but not enough to jeopardise the expedition. Come and see me training in the dry Todd River bed. I’ll be the crazy guy pretending to be a mule, hauling a heavily-laden cart to nowhere.

Yours truly,

Michael Giacometti