Guess My End Mileage

[txt2007]

Hey, i started from my house in warrington on the 15th of this month and went john o'groats first and have returned home for a day or two to allow my kit to dry and to try raise money, then i'll set off to lands end then all the way back. So far i've stayed with eco warriors in tree houses, tibetan monks, at poeple's houses i've met along the way, and slept in a bus shelter and someone's front porch.

The trip started off as a personal thing, to challenge myself, but has soon turned into a "meet the poeple" trip, i've met so many lovely poeple already and can't wait to get down south.

My mileage has varied quite abit from 30miles to 160 and i'm not sticking to the conventional end to end route so google maps wont aid you in your bet!

Each bet is £2 and who ever guesses the nearest mileage gets to keep half the money raised and the choice of who they want to donate the other half to. Also if you wish to place a second bet it's £3, and my speado goes to a tenth of a mile so i can take bets like "123.4"

If you're interested just send me a message with your name, guess, contact number and name of charity you'd like to donate to (i've put it on the sheet so poeple who don't know which charity can just pick one from the sheet)

edit - don't know how to work the photo's all the pictures are on fb here....

http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=19831&id=1771576386&ref=mf

My "tent", in inverness after a day of pure rain, the biggest problem i have with my tent is people being able to see you, i've had quite a few "you sleep funny" comments

Edited August 4, 2010 by txt2007

[JT!]

So... where does the 2 pounds per guess goto, your pocket or the charity?

Are you sure you're ok to give away half of your money earned when people donating it would have thought that 100% of it will be going to charity?

[txt2007]

So... where does the 2 pounds per guess goto, your pocket or the charity?

Are you sure you're ok to give away half of your money earned when people donating it would have thought that 100% of it will be going to charity?

i'm not getting anything from this, other than the experience i figured at £2 a bet if i get 50 people to donate then thats £100, 50 goes to the winner 50 goes to their charity, or if they like they can donate it all, just thought it'd be more interesting than your average charity collection...

[Radfax]

I think JT might have meant the money you have raised on the ride from one destination to the other would be won and the winner gets to keep half (thats what i thought for a breif second anyway). But your above post seems to hve cleared all of that up

[tomturd]

have you thought of setting up a justgiving.com page? Really easy and means people can donate with paypal.

Sounds like a good idea. I'd like to think that the winner would donate their winnings to charity too

ah, and the FB link doesnt seem to work for me

[Hannah Shucksmith]

have you thought of setting up a justgiving.com page? Really easy and means people can donate with paypal.

Sounds like a good idea. I'd like to think that the winner would donate their winnings to charity too

ah, and the FB link doesnt seem to work for me

Link works for me; just says I need to be his friend to view contents.

[JT!]

i'm not getting anything from this, other than the experience i figured at £2 a bet if i get 50 people to donate then thats £100, 50 goes to the winner 50 goes to their charity, or if they like they can donate it all, just thought it'd be more interesting than your average charity collection...

Gotcha. My mistake.

[txt2007]

I've changed my facebook settings, so pictyures should be viewable, but i will embed them, or whatever it's called. should really try and sort out where i'm camping though for down south =/

[txt2007]

have you thought of setting up a justgiving.com page? Really easy and means people can donate with paypal.

Sounds like a good idea. I'd like to think that the winner would donate their winnings to charity too

ah, and the FB link doesnt seem to work for me

My brother tried, to be honest i was just going to go bother the neighbors he's the one pushing me to ask on all forums and stuff. But he said because there isnt a specific charity it's being a pain, but i thought by not chossing which charity myself the person who wins could choose a charity that means something to them.

[Lawnmowerman]

Is that sam ye ling?? My dad's ashes are in the stupa there

[eskimo]

Lovin' the tent. Great work

[txt2007]

i forget what the name of the place was but it was around eskdalemuir. Was a really interesting night!

Just got back from lands end, which by the way is horrible, rear wheel died 16miles away from land end had to but a new one from penzance halfords!

Not as many pictures this time purely because it was just boring busy roads, met tons more really nice poeple who offered to put me up for a night, feed me ect ect.