Plymouth - Banjul Gambia - Winter 2004/2005

This Plymouth-Dakar Challange was made possible by the generous support we received from some very special sponsors and donors:

If you feel a need to help us out in our challenge and have access to any of these sorts of things we would appreciate you contacting us and seeing if we can work something out.

We'll do our best to get you press and recognition for your donations and of course will provide proof of donation in a form acceptable to the IRS.

	Orcas Roast Coffee - Rob Kirby The "official" coffee of the Creamy Treats Team!! - Rob Kirby is a micro roaster on Orcas Island (the island where Dan lives) - he is renowned for making some of the best coffees, dressings and sauces around - thanks Rob - check out his site and order some stuff!!
	iHostSites Web Hosting Thanks to the great guys at iHost - We appreciate their contribution of hosting our website and obtaining the domain names! We can't express how grateful we are to have such great support from these guys!!!
	Nomad Cows Web & Software A huge thank you to Scott Kozinchik, owner of Nomad Cows! Scott produced a website for some friends of Dan's (Shawna and Leon of BodyBoatBlade on Orcas Island) while they were doing an sea kayak expedition around Iceland - (check the site out here: Iceland2003). Dan badgered Scott to donate the template of this site and Scott was very gracious in handing over the source code and offering his expertise to make it all happen for us.

Mike Tebbut Merriot, England
Mike is "da man" - he sold us the ICV and has been very helpful and supportive. He moved the ICV to storage and kept it covered up - and he found us a breaker yard with some spare parts in it and he located Caroline Clarke for us to get us a place to work on the van. Thanks Mike and we still owe you a couple pints as always!

Caroline Clarke of West Coker, England
Caroline has been a dream come true for us - originally when Mike introduced us we were just looking to rent a shed to work on the ICV - well it turned out she had a huge barn available and after a little (ok, a lot!) of cleaning up, we were able to get the ICV into the barn and we were working! - A nice dry barn with a concrete floor, some old dead cars inside to scavenge parts from and lots of wood to build small parts from. Not only did Caroline let us use the barn but she opened her home to us - let us sleep in her spare bedroom (we were planning on a sleeping bag in the barn, but she would have nothing of that) - and she made us hot tea and warm dinners. What a great and gracious lady!
(And no, she doesn't look like a cat, we're gonna have to steal a shot of her on our next trip)

Rachel Palmer, Teignmouth England
When we were first interested in the ICV, Rachel contacted us and we talked a bit back and forth. She did a story on the Plymouth-Dakar for last years event and had become quite interested in the ICV that went along on that trip. Rachel drove us all the way down into France to see the old ICV that blew apart on the trip last year.
She was very tolerant of a couple of American guys and generous with her time and we're thankful for her help.
Check out her site - some great photos - www.rachelpalmer.co.uk

Many Others
There are numerous other folks who we have met along the way who are not on the list...but we thank them as well for all of the help and encouragement!

Bruce Kinnaman, Portland Oregon
Bruce passed away in Sept/2004 - he was John's father in-law. He was a remarkable spirit and extremely kind hearted man - he donated all his tools to help us prepare the ICV for the journey to Africa. We'll be donating all the tools to the charities in The Gambia for auctioning off.

Lynn Clemens, Battleground Washington
John's wife who works for United Airlines spent a ton of time working with us to facilitate the numerous flights we had to take and the inevitable fiascos that occur when traveling around the world. How many ways can you say "I'm stuck in London and I can't get home!" Thanks Lynn!

Nicholas Criss, Seattle Washington
Nic has been hacking the site up for us - making the broken stuff work and just "gettin r' dun" - It seems every time I touch something I break it but Nic is patient enough to just fix it and not make a complete moron out of me - Nic is also a new daddy and he has somehow managed to squeeze out some time for our website - Thanks Nic!

Thank you to those who have helped us prepare for this trip

And all the hundreds of others that have bought Plymouth-Banjul 2004 T-Shirts to support us!

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