Top ten road trip tunes!

There's a lot to get done in the next 5 days! Rather than deal with any of important to-do's I chose instead to make us a mix of the ultimate tunes for the road - fasten your seat belts, it's gonna be a bumpy ride :)

1. Prince - Little red corvette

2. Steel Panther - Party all day



3. AC/DC - Highway to hell

4. Dire straits - Heavy fuel



5. ZZ top - La grange(A haw, haw, haw, haw, a haw. A haw, haw, haw.)

6. Fleetwood mac - Go your own way

7. Bruce (we're on a first name basis) - Born to run



8. Meatloaf - Bat out of hell

9. The Beach boys - Fun fun fun

10. War - Low rider (featuring some ridiculous dancing cars)

Top ten Tuesday: Our Put foot bucket list

Well we feel that we’ve done quite enough stressing of late about all the things we still need and the all things we still need to get done. I'd much rather think about all the rad stuff we’re going to get to see and do. Here’s Put foot HQ’s must-do list for Southern Africa:

Our personal bucket list includes some of these classics of course - but with a few more food and drink based experiences..

1.   Jumping for joy at Etosha pan.

2.   Feasting on some Namibian Biltong.

3.   Cooling off in the Ngepi camp’s floating swimming pool (read croc-proof cage).

The famous Ngepi camp near Popa falls.

4.   Feeling the spray of the Zambezi as it tumbles over Vic falls.

5.   Taking a dip in the devils cauldron at the top of Vic falls (although this is apparently only possible in Oct - Dec. Sad face.) 

Flying tourist courtesy of Google images. From here.

6.   Taking part in the 2012 Put foot rally shoe drop at Senkobo Basic School.

7.   Staging a pirate take-over of the Kariba ferry.

8.   Tasting the fabled Malawi gin in an mgt.

Gin + sachet = genius

9.   Skinny dipping in Lake Malawi.

10. Enjoying an R&R (Raspberry and Tipo tinto rum) with some scrumptious prawns on the beach in  Moz.

Some inspiration from Penelope Pitstop

It's probably too late to get our Constance looking anything like Penelope Pitstop's Compact Pussycat (yes, that is what it's called).

The Compact Pussycat at Goodwood (from here).

But potentially not too late to source the costumes..?!

Cougar Penelope

Hmmmm..

Jozi's turn to quiz

Jozi’s best and brightest braved the cold to gather at Pirates sports club last week Thursday for the 2^nd Team Pedal Pushers fundraiser. 

A fairly unwilling Mr Langley took on the role of quiz master and did a fantastic job of controlling the enthusiastic (read unruly) crowd – even as we were plunged into darkness by a momentary power outage. Well done to each of the eleven teams who fought to the (almost) death for eternal glory and the top spot. In total we raised R2900 for Project Rhino and the Put Foot Foundation which brings our fundraising total to R5800!!

A very big thank-you to everyone who came to support, to Pirates who hosted us free of charge and to Larry ‘The Quizwizz’  (undoubtedly the best quizmaster in Jozi) who advertised for us. 

It's arrived - Our Route

So following one rather confusing skype conversation we finally have what we hope is OUR ROUTE! We are of course trying not to be too anal about it and accept that while this is "the ideal" we may have to make it up as we go along when we realise what sort of roads we're facing, have a puncture, don't set an alarm and only arise at 10am but surely this is what adventuring is about...at least this is what I keep telling mum. And as I keep reminding myself, we're only young enough and stupid enough to do a car rally around Southern African once...probably!

We've dedicated a whole page of the blog to the route so look up and click :)

Excited, terrified in equal measure.

Seriously. We need an audio book or four. "Game of Thrones"....?

A New Beginning

Happy 2012 Everybody.

Hope everyone had a cracking New Year and is ready for this year to kick ass.

So now is the time where everyone puts together their list of new year's resolutions. You know, the usual lose weight, get fit, quit smoking, stop lurking all over your numero uno crushes facebook page.

Ha, well good luck to you.

There's nothing usual about the Penny Pitstoppers so here is our list for 2012:

1. Raise lots of money
2. Learn to change a car tyre
3. Be More Awesome

Although to be fair we're not even sure if the third one would be humanly possible.

Keep it real kiddos

(pics sourced from here)