Mertonium

As you all know, I like to travel – especially road trips.  That’s why when my girlfriend, Laura, and I discovered the Northern Lights Rally (http://www.northernlightsrally.com) we knew we had to get involved.

What’s the Northern Lights Rally?  First of all, its not technically a rally (there are no time trials and no winner).  Its more of a challenge.  A challenge to drive a cheap, run down car from Glasgow to Tallinn, Estonia.  When we get there the car will be auctioned (or scrapped, I’m still finding that out) to raise money for the Estonian charity, the Sunflower Foundation.

The challenge officially begins in Amsterdam on April 17th so we will be leaving Glasgow on the 16th.  We will be covering about 4000 miles in 10 days on a route that will take us through Denmark, Sweden, up the Norwegian west coast all the way to the “top” of mainland Europe, then south through Finland, ending with a ferry ride to Estonia.

In order to differ the cost of buying & fuelling a car across Northern Europe we (the Tartan Eagles Rally Team) are looking for team sponsors.  In professional racing you usually see a couple of giant logos on the car from its main sponsors – we are going in a similar direction.  Everyone who sponsors our car with at least £5 ($8) will get their name printed on the car!  And the more you sponsor, the bigger your name gets (if you give enough we’ll put whatever you want on the car).

So if you want to join the team, check out our website at http://www.tartaneaglesgonorth.com

The site is running on WordPress with a custom theme that was designed by moi (including the photo of my map).  I tried about three different PayPal plugins and in the end, I customized the PayPal Donations plugin to have an input box so the user can specify the amount the want to sponsor.  I was also a sucker for the Sexy Bookmarks plugin.