Official Website and Departure Date / Sitio Web y Fecha de Salida

Hello people!

I just wanted to let you know that soon, we will be moving the official website of the project to www.diariomochilero.com which is going to be the official website of the trip, where we will be updating you daily if Internet Access allows us to do it with pictures and videos.

We have finally our departure date after looking for flights for quite a while and waiting for more sponsors for the trip. We arrive in Brussels on July 24th. Looking forward to see you on the other side :)

Hola mi gente!

Solo queria comentarles que pronto estaremos moviendo el blog a www.diariomochilero.com, que va a ser la pagina oficial de nuestro viaje, donde estaremos mandando actualizaciones diarias si el acceso a internet lo permite con fotografias y videos.

Finalmente tenemos nuestra fecha de salida, despues de buscar vuelos por algun tiempo y esperar por algunos patrocinadores se sumaran al proyecto. LLegamos a Bruselas el 24 de Julio, asi que esperamos verlos del otro lado :)

The Tasks

First of all... thank you to all that people that already donate money, to the ones that are planning to do it, and to the ones that are following the project and giving us the strength to complete it.

From now on, we will put the tasks of the people that is donating money on this post for you guys to know and to get some ideas yourself. We will give people an opportunity to change their tasks since they are having troubles deciding what they want us to do, and we really would like to do something you find fun and that you really want. People will be able to change their minds only once and before May 31st.


1. Silvia H from Guatemala:

Location - Barcelona, Spain

Task - Find a way to get into a training day of The Barcelona Football Club Team to meet the players and get autographs for Silvia. (Thank God I'm not a Real Madrid fan).

2. Emilie M from France

Location - Paris, France
Task - Using the Velibeb Bicycles we need to travel across Paris. This might seem simple but we cant pay for the bicycles, so in order for them to be free we can only spend 30 minutes on each leg to get the next free Velibeb. And if to that you add the fact that Julio broke his arm last time he was in a bicycle two weeks ago and I haven't been in one in 15 years it might get quite interesting :)

3. Sebastian M from Switzerland

Location - Zurich, Switzerland
Task - Go over there and organize a party for Sebas and his friends that they will never forget! Or perhaps will forget because they will drink too much but we will make sure to take pics. Guys, we are already planning something epic for this one!! Get ready!!

4. Lucille M from France

Location - Every Country we visit in Europe
Task - To cook a traditional meal of every country we will visit in Europe. This will be an exception of doing different tasks in different places since we were not very clear with the rules hehehe.... but we love this one!.... Julio loves to cook and I might finally learn something! :) Thanks for this interesting task and let us know people if you would like to share your kitchens and recipes with us along the way.

5. Mathilde B from Spain

Location - Manresa, Spain
Task - Our dear Mathilde has problems getting her house clean so she is asking for our help. We will clean her house with emphasis in the windows since it seems they want a bit more of sun in the house (We forgot to ask if she lives in a building and she want them clean from the outside mmmm... ). And she wants that while we clean her house we use some traditional clothing from her location to do it a little bit more cultural. We are your guys Mathilde!


6. Dennise M from France
Location - Esvres, France
Task - Dennise want us to go to her home in Esvres and help her with her Bee Farm. We will have to help with the whole process of getting the honey and finish the task by selling it to the local people which is going to be fun considering we do not speak French. I was talking with Julio about this task and we realize we don't know if we are allergic to bees... and we hope not to find out on this trip.

7. Ben P. from the United States

Location - England, France or Belgium

Task- Take a swimm in The English Channel ( in which country should we do it??)

8. Maud & Christophe from France

Location - Paris, France

Task - We need to go during the lovely summer in Paris to the shore of " La Seine" River, and ask some locals to teach us and let us play for an afternoon the lovely game of "Petanque". Maud & Christophe did not ask us to win a game as part of the task, but since we are competitive and pride latin boys, we promise to win at least one game... how difficult can it be? :/

8. Marc A. from France

Location - Blois, France

Task - Marc invite us to spend a day and night with him as his boyfriend. We will discover, learn and share the life of a gay couple. Great isn't? We are really looking forward for this task, it will be a lovely experience for us, and it will be something great to share with everybody that will follow our trip.

9. Sonja P. from the United States

Location - Stuibenfalle, Austria

Task- Not only we get to discover a lovely place like Stuibenfalle in one of my favorite countries (Pampa and Im sure Julio will love the place once he gets there as well.. hehehe), but we get to spend a lovely day with our guide Sonja.

10. Julia F. from Germany

Location - Fussen, Germany

Task - Here is the chance we were waiting to become famous, we will get to DJ (some really cool latin music) at a local pub in Fussen. So if you are in town or near by don't miss the chance to see us in action... we promise you one thing, we will make you jump and dance ;)

11. Reno B. from France

Location - Probably France

Task- We are waiting ;)

12. Marie C. from France

Location - Tours, France

Task - Something related with Ping Pong... we are waiting for the details :)

13. Cecile from France

Location - Somewhere in France

Task - we are waiting as well ;)

14. Bozena C. from Poland

Location - Katowice, Poland

Task - She is giving it some thoughts... First task in poland, we are excited :) anyone else?

This are the tasks we need to complete in our trip and we are waiting for more. What are you waiting for? ;)

Everybody can help :) Want to know how??

We know that not everybody has the opportunity to donate money this days, let's face it "economy sucks". We really appreciate those who already send their donation and their tasks from the bottom of our hearts and we are of course crossing our fingers to get more ;)

There is a lot of people that really like the project, and a lot of friends as well that are asking me how they can help if they can't send money at the moment. Well, there is many things you can do to help us, and is really simple and will take just some of your time.

SPREAD THE WORD!!! That is a way you can help us as well and we will appreciate it:

There is a few things you can do and they are really simple, for example to send the suggestion of our Facebook Fan Page to your friends, or share from time to time the link of the page in your status for your contacts to see it. You can do that as well in your msn messenger status, just put this blog address there and people will click at it out of curiosity and find out about our project.


If you would like to get more into it, you could contact a radio station in your area or a newspaper that might be interested in print the story and give them the information about our project and our contacts if they want.


If you really would like us to do a tasks but money is an issue as an individual do it as a group. I been advising this to some friends of mine, if you have a friends reunion or a party you share tell the idea of the project to the whole group, and between all of you donate your spare change and then as a fun activity decide where would you like us to go and of course, what would you like us to do.

Once again! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! YOU GUYS BEEN WONDERFUL!

El Proyecto (Scroll Down for English Version)

La idea es simple, viajar durante 90 dias a través de Europa con mi mejor amigo Julio. La meta es completar aquellas tareas que las personas nos den como tarea durante el periodo de recaudacion de fondos.

El viaje empieza el 23 de Julio y termina el 20 de Octubre del 2010.

LAS TAREAS

Las Tares consistirán en diferentes tipos de retos que aquella gente que donara dinero nos dará... dichas tareas podrían llegar a sobrepasar la capacidad que tenemos de completarlas en 90 días. En dicho caso tomaremos la decisión de hacer las mas interesantes y originales

Las tareas pueden ser cualquier cosa que les venga a la mente, por ejemplo: si desean que pintemos su casa viajaremos hasta allá para hacerlo, si quieren que cantemos en la boda de sus primos lo podemos hacer, si prefieren que corramos un maratón en su ciudad... bueno, podemos tratar :)

Todo depende de ustedes chicos... solo espero que no nos hagan hacer cosas que preocupen a nuestras mamas o que nos metan en la carcel ( no durariamos ni 12 horas adentro)

Es muy importante que las Tareas que nos manden sean en Europa, y tambien muy importante que una tarea no conste de muchas etapas, ya que por cuestiones de tiempo necesitamos que cada una de ellas no nos lleve mas de un día o dos en una locación determinada.


LA RECAUDACIÓN DE FONDOS

Vamos a ponernos un periodo de 4 meses para la recaudación de fondos de este viaje, el dinero que la gente done sera usado en una gran parte para los boletos de Avión de Guatemala a Europa, mientras que el resto del dinero sera utilizado para comida y transporte si es necesario solamente ya que el viaje lo planeamos hacer de Autostop (jalón, aventon, haciendo dedo. Pagaremos por Transporte solo de ser necesario para completar una de las tareas.

Tampoco pagaremos por acomodación, en vez de eso estaremos quedándonos con amigos o buscando personas que desean darnos hospedaje por una noche o dos, y si llega a ser necesario acamparemos en algún lugar.

Y parte del dinero recaudado sera utilizado en equipo para filmar el viaje.

LA RETROALIMENTACION

Y por supuesto como una forma de agradecer a todas aquellas personas que nos están apoyando y que les gustaría saber sobre nuestra situación durante el viaje, estaremos filmándolo para subir fotografías y vídeos para mantenerlos al tanto.

Al final del viaje traeremos todo ese material y haremos una serie, que nos encantaría pasar por televisión nacional y por supuesto que les enviaremos una SORPRESA al finalizar el viaje como un MIL GRACIAS a todos aquellos que sin su ayuda esto no seria posible.

Y por ultimo...

QUIENES SOMOS

La mayoría de personas me conoce como Pampa y nací en Guatemala mientras Julio es argentino y ha vivido en mi país por los últimos 4 años.


Nos conocimos poco después de su llegada cuando empezó a trabajar en el mismo lugar donde yo trabajaba y en donde nos convertimos en muy buenos amigos y compañeros de piso, y ahora finalmente estamos haciendo nuestro sueño realidad de empezar nuestra compañía productora.

Durante los próximos meses trataremos de contarles un poco mas sobre nosotros, y trataremos de hacerlos parte de nuestras vidas para que nos conozcan un poco mejor si aun no nos hemos conocido.


Mientras tanto son bienvenidos a unirse en nuestro grupo de Facebook, donde podremos mantenerlos al tanto sobre nuestro proyecto: 90 días en Europa

Para hacer cualquier pregunta o si tienen alguna duda o bien donaron dinero y desean enviarnos su tarea, por favor háganlo a:


Pampa: pampagt@gmail.com
Julio: julio@cayucoproducciones.com

The Project

The idea is simple, to travel 90 days trough Europe with my best friend (Julio), The goal to complete the tasks people gave us during the fund raising period.

The trip starts in July 23th and ends in October 20th 2010.

THE TASKS

The Tasks will consist in different types of challenges that people who donate money will give us... such tasks might overcome the capacity we will have to complete them in 90 days in which case we will choose the most interesting, fun and original ideas.

The tasks can be pretty much anything that comes to your mind, for example if you want us to paint your house we will travel all the way there to do it, if you want us to sing at your cousins wedding we can do it, if you need us to go out with you at night and get you a date you can count on us, if you want to see us running a marathon in your city well... we can try.

Is up to you guys and just try to avoid things that will make our mums worry or get us in jail (we would not last 12 hours inside).

The location of the tasks needs to be in Europe.


THE FUND RAISING

We will set a 4 month period to do a fund raising for this trip, the money that people donate will be use in big part for the plane tickets from Guatemala to Europe, the rest of the money will be use for food and transportation if needed since we are planning to hitch hike most of the way and pay for transportation only if it is for purposes to complete one of the tasks.

We will not pay for accommodation, instead we will stay with friends or look for people willing to give us a place to crash for a night or two, or if needed we will camp on the road when we have to.

Part of the money will be used for equipment to film the trip.


THE FEEDBACK

And of course for all the people that will help us and that would like to know what are we up to on this trip, we will upload videos and photographs to keep you updated.

At the end of the trip we will put all the footage together to make a series, that we would like to air in a national tv channel and of course we will send you a SURPRISE at the end of the trip with as BIG THANK YOU for all your help since without you this will not be possible.

And last but not least...

WHO WE ARE

Most people call me Pampa and I was born in Guatemala while Julio is Argentinean and is been living in my country for the last 4 years.

We met here after his arrival while working in the same bar, were we became good friends and room mates and now we are working really hard to make our dream come true to build a live music production company.


During the next months we will try to let you know more about us, we will try to make all of you part of our lifes, so you get to know us better in case you don't yet.

On the meantime you are welcome to join us in Facebook, were we will be able to keep you guys updated with news about the Project: 90 days in Europe

To ask any questions or doubts, or if you donate money and would like to send the task, please do it to:

Pampa: pampagt@gmail.com
Julio: julio@cayucoproducciones.com