Someone pointed this out to us. Great stuff guys. "I just stumbled across this on the Brisbane Times website. It is an absolutely unbelievable thing to be doing, especially in a country as Australia!" Read Here
On Earth Garden
This type of thing REALLY anoys me. If they are paying for all their costs themselves and any donations actually go to charity, fair enough, but most of them don't!
On Wee Waa
Interesting Story
Three friends from around the UK have come together in Brisbane to set off on a circumnavigation of Australia, to raise money for a child literacy charity, Book Aid International and to write a book about their travels. With one small exception: They must start the trip from scratch, with nothing more than their trust in good will and generosity.
ABC Queensland
A Road Trip With A Differnce
A welshman, an english woman and a British Isles-man were sitting at a bar in Wales ... and they made a promise.
No, this is not a joke ... years later, the three friends left their jobs in Ireland, Osaka and Vienna and met up in Brisbane, Australia.
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BBC Article
Round Australia trip the hard way
The trio started off in bin bags on the streets of Brisbane
A Gwynedd man is taking an unusual approach to travelling around Australia to raise money for charity.
Along with two friends, Gareth Owen, from Groeslon near Caernarfon, started off with nothing - not even the clothes on his back.
The trio plan to work for all the goods and services they will need on the journey as they raise funds for Bookaid International.
The 15000 km round trip will end in Brisbane on 26 January next year.
Read more on the BBC website. "We've been planning the trip, which we've called 'as cheeky as you can't', for three years and we began by giving everything we had away," Mr Owen, 31, told BBC Radio Cymru's Hywel a Nia programme.
"The rules state that no cash can be earned and we will be working for food and everything else we will need along the way," said.
We have thought hard about what the possible problems might be, and how we might overcome them
Gareth Owen, 'Cheeky' traveller
The friends - the others are Anne Race from Tyne and Wear and Phil Carr from the Isle of Man - started off by giving all their clothes away and wearing bin bags on the streets of Brisbane.
"One man took off his flip-flops and others gave us bits of clothing," said Mr Owen.
"We're trying to get as many people involved as possible, and we've already got a van, tents and all our camping equipment.
"Someone even came to the door last week with a box of 12 bottles of wine," he added.
The trio hope their trip will be sufficiently different to attract enough publicity to raise £10,000 for child literacy charity Bookaid International.
"We are hoping that by doing the trip this way (depending on other people to donate everything) we can highlight the problems faced by people who have no money," he said.
Travellers tale
As Australia is such a vast country Mr Owen said they were hoping advance publicity would mean that communities along the way would be expecting them.
There is also an online blog of the traveller's tales.
"We have thought hard about what the possible problems might be, and how we might overcome them," he said.
"But so far we're doing really well, and we've had promises of food and places to stay," he added.
At the family's home at Groeslon near Caernarfon Mr Owen's mother, Mandy, said she thought the trip was a fantastic way to raise awareness of the Bookaid charity.
"I have been out today to send a parcel, as they are leaving forwarding addressed, but I'm not sure of their route," she said.
"At some point they are bound to go into the bush though, so I am hoping for their safety.
"They are extremely good friends though, and are in this together," she added. Return to Cheeky As You Can't home
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The trio started off in bin bags on the streets of Brisbane
A Gwynedd man is taking an unusual approach to travelling around Australia to raise money for charity.
Along with two friends, Gareth Owen, from Groeslon near Caernarfon, started off with nothing - not even the clothes on his back.
The trio plan to work for all the goods and services they will need on the journey as they raise funds for Bookaid International.
The 15000 km round trip will end in Brisbane on 26 January next year.
Read more on the BBC website. "We've been planning the trip, which we've called 'as cheeky as you can't', for three years and we began by giving everything we had away," Mr Owen, 31, told BBC Radio Cymru's Hywel a Nia programme.
"The rules state that no cash can be earned and we will be working for food and everything else we will need along the way," said.
We have thought hard about what the possible problems might be, and how we might overcome them
Gareth Owen, 'Cheeky' traveller
The friends - the others are Anne Race from Tyne and Wear and Phil Carr from the Isle of Man - started off by giving all their clothes away and wearing bin bags on the streets of Brisbane.
"One man took off his flip-flops and others gave us bits of clothing," said Mr Owen.
"We're trying to get as many people involved as possible, and we've already got a van, tents and all our camping equipment.
"Someone even came to the door last week with a box of 12 bottles of wine," he added.
The trio hope their trip will be sufficiently different to attract enough publicity to raise £10,000 for child literacy charity Bookaid International.
"We are hoping that by doing the trip this way (depending on other people to donate everything) we can highlight the problems faced by people who have no money," he said.
Travellers tale
As Australia is such a vast country Mr Owen said they were hoping advance publicity would mean that communities along the way would be expecting them.
There is also an online blog of the traveller's tales.
"We have thought hard about what the possible problems might be, and how we might overcome them," he said.
"But so far we're doing really well, and we've had promises of food and places to stay," he added.
At the family's home at Groeslon near Caernarfon Mr Owen's mother, Mandy, said she thought the trip was a fantastic way to raise awareness of the Bookaid charity.
"I have been out today to send a parcel, as they are leaving forwarding addressed, but I'm not sure of their route," she said.
"At some point they are bound to go into the bush though, so I am hoping for their safety.
"They are extremely good friends though, and are in this together," she added. Return to Cheeky As You Can't home
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It's a Lifestyle Choice
The Challenge
From UN World Peace Day (Sep 21st) we circumnavigate the continent of Australia. See map. We begin with NOTHING: we will have no cash, no clothes, no possessions and no vehicle at the start of our journey. We remain penniless the whole journey, not spending a cent for anything. We do any job given to us and donate all our wages to Book Aid.
At the end, we give back, donate or auction all we have been given. Attempt to reach our goal of raising £10,000 ($22500) for Book Aid We place the outcome of our journey, our lives and our adventure into the hands of others. We work in exchange for goods and services such as food and fuel.
Each and Every Person Acknowledged
How do we keep people involved?
We will be forced into a daily survival situation where we have to rely on ingenuity, audacity, exchange, dares, comedy gold and the generosity of strangers to obtain the most basic of things. We will make our way round in who knows what manner, or in what sort of state, but always with good humour and originality. We will have to be audacious and cheeky to carry this off. So, be it a simple case of picking berries for shelter, telling jokes for pies, dressing up as a chicken to get our socks washed or tightrope walking for toilet roll, we will do it in exchange for something we need to circumnavigate the continent without a penny passing into our hands for work. It will be hard, we have to keep on trying, not as hard as we 'can,' but until we 'can't'. We must continue pushing on to the finishing post back in Brisbane, no matter what difficulties we come across.
With the local and national media, radio, TV and newspapers involved, we will build a profile to generate a following that will be able to see our progress daily online.What we are collecting here is a resource for people interested in Australia and a mateship list. A list of people who share in the ideal that the world is a good place, a list of those who believe in helping others in need, and most of all, a list of Aussies who like to have a laugh, share a good time and believe a 'can’t' can become a dead set ripper of a 'CAN'! Join us on our quest to help international child literacy by lending us your support, by sending us things you think we may need along the way, by making online donations to Book Aid International and/or to our fuel fund and by telling your friends! Read a cheeky bit more, the link below, to find out how to help us achieve the impossible.
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- We will not fail to publicly thank everyone who enables us to do this.
- Our a ‘Good on ya! Cheers mate’ list, will contain acknowledgements of all those who have helped us, and will be updated regularly.
- Nothing is irrelevant. A handshake and a kind word will be acknowledged.
- Our blogsite will be updated, added to, made fun, informative and the only official way to follow our intrepid adventures as they unfold
- Anne takes pictures
- Phil tells a joke
- Gareth grows a beard
- People contribute opinions, stories of their own, jokes, facts, anecdotes, and give us suggestions and invitations.
Buckley’s or breeze?
We will be forced into a daily survival situation where we have to rely on ingenuity, audacity, exchange, dares, comedy gold and the generosity of strangers to obtain the most basic of things. We will make our way round in who knows what manner, or in what sort of state, but always with good humour and originality. We will have to be audacious and cheeky to carry this off. So, be it a simple case of picking berries for shelter, telling jokes for pies, dressing up as a chicken to get our socks washed or tightrope walking for toilet roll, we will do it in exchange for something we need to circumnavigate the continent without a penny passing into our hands for work. It will be hard, we have to keep on trying, not as hard as we 'can,' but until we 'can't'. We must continue pushing on to the finishing post back in Brisbane, no matter what difficulties we come across.
Along a planned route we will find as many activities as we can, visit tourist attractions and places of interest, try our hands at any and all jobs (especially those targeted to travellers who enter on working holiday visas) and we will document all our finds and experiences. Every small business or individual who helps us will have their company logo and or name printed on our weblog.
With the local and national media, radio, TV and newspapers involved, we will build a profile to generate a following that will be able to see our progress daily online.What we are collecting here is a resource for people interested in Australia and a mateship list. A list of people who share in the ideal that the world is a good place, a list of those who believe in helping others in need, and most of all, a list of Aussies who like to have a laugh, share a good time and believe a 'can’t' can become a dead set ripper of a 'CAN'! Join us on our quest to help international child literacy by lending us your support, by sending us things you think we may need along the way, by making online donations to Book Aid International and/or to our fuel fund and by telling your friends! Read a cheeky bit more, the link below, to find out how to help us achieve the impossible.
There are many ways in which our friends, family, the media, companies, and our new to be mates can help us.
Donations
Please make donations to Book Aid.
Please make donations to our fuel and emergency breakdown/car maintenance fund. We will endeavour to not have to touch this fund but we predict we will need some help making sure we are carrying enough fuel in our vehicle to get us through the long unwinding roads through the desserts. All money which we manage to not use will be added to the Book Aid donations.
Mechanic
Will we need some fine tuning? Probably. "Pass me the spanner mate, it's most likely the head gasket, or is it the sump? Kick the tyres and find out". We are engine illiterate. Help us
Wish List
Please send us some of the things on our wish list. Don’t let Anne have to go through months and months of driving with smelly boys. Send odour eater socks and car fresheners etc to our starting address or to a post office. We will be grateful to anyone who sends us anything!
Spot us on the street and give us something. See our car parked and leave us something in our donation box, anything will be gratefully received but if they are biscuit shaped, edible and crumbly, Gareth will be happy.
Burn and send us mixed Cd's of your own music. We will need to listen to something as we are passing through areas with no radio frequencies. We will put links to all the music we like on our 'Thank You, Good On Ya Mate' website.
Offer us work
If you have a business which hires contract or seasonal workers, offer us a job in exchange for goods. We want to try our hands at any jobs you have for us, the stranger the better. Any jobs which we haven't already done, we will do to the best of our abilities. And remember, all money earned will go straight to Book Aid International.
Suggest work places to us.
Suggest places which we should contact for work. If you have worked in Australia and found your job , the people or the place interesting, or if you have any contact details for unusual jobs Australia, please give us details.
Do you have a garden which needs weeding, a dog which needs brushing, laundry which needs hanging or a car that needs waxing, we will happily do it in exchange of a feed, a bed or a wash.
Suggest places for us to visit and activities for us to do. We want to hear your stories. What really impressed you when you were here? Do you love your Auzzie town, tell us why we should visit you?
Send us Off
Come down and see us off at our start in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia.
Sunday 21st September
We will be starting out in the Valley Mall, Brisbane. If you can make it, please come down and speak to us. We will be the three people striping of their work clothes and donning black bin bags waiting for some kind soul to donate us some clothing.
Swapsies
If you see us en route, please swap something you have excess of, that we could use, for something we have excess of.
Website
Do you know how to improve this website? Please help us make improvements, make it more interesting, easier to navigate, add graphics etc. We need to add an interactive map with our destinations. Can you help us with this?
Artists
Please help us develop a brand. We need an identity, a logo or maybe a caricature/cartoon of ourselves so people can easily recognise us on the road.
Develop a design for our vehicle spray work or vehicle wrapping.
Spread the Word!
Help us gain the support we need to complete our challenge. Send a link to our website to all your friends.
Ask your work/friends/family to sponsor us.
Become our Facebook friend and join the Facebook 'As Cheeky As You Can't' group. Send a Facebook friend suggestion to all your friends. Sign up to our weblog and keep a watch over how far we are getting with our cheeky trek. Become a follower. Subscribe to our feeds.
Tell your local papers about us. We could use as much publicity as possible.
Have you met 'As Cheeky As You Can't'?
Do you have a story to tell about a time you spent with us? We want your stories and pictures. Either tags us in public pictures on Facebook and write up your story in the group or our wall, write up an article and post it (tagging us in the post) or share it in the comments box on blogger at the end of one of our articles. Remember, you are an integral part of this adventure, the people we meet are the most important element of the success of our quest.
Please contact us asap or send us something we will need.
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Day Two
Sppag Trek -The Next Bifurcation
It is only day two of our trek and there is already $1779 which has gone directly to book aid international.
After a bit of a hungry start to the day we spoke to a few people about Book Aid, hopefully spreading the word about their worthy cause.
We are a little worried about how we are going to make sure we can get a little fuel along the way, as we are working but unable to take money, but I'm sure somehow we will find a way.
Invited to do the Story Bridge Climbing Adventure Climb during the afternoon, we were extremely fortunate to see a birds eye view of the city as the sun quickly changed the sky hues through a gamot of colours then suddenly dropped behind the skyline.
Mel, Rachel and Andrew, supporters of the great work Book Aid International do, took us for a fantastic feed in the evening. What a feast! Thank you! Although it was the only meal we had yesterday it was huge, delicious and made going without during the day worth while! How guilty we felt, as we sat there with our over filled bellies, thinking 'Hmmm surely going without is supposed to be harder than this!' We are very grateful that we have clothes on our back, and nice clothes at that too, and that we are being fed delicious food by supporters.
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It is only day two of our trek and there is already $1779 which has gone directly to book aid international.
After a bit of a hungry start to the day we spoke to a few people about Book Aid, hopefully spreading the word about their worthy cause.
We are a little worried about how we are going to make sure we can get a little fuel along the way, as we are working but unable to take money, but I'm sure somehow we will find a way.
Invited to do the Story Bridge Climbing Adventure Climb during the afternoon, we were extremely fortunate to see a birds eye view of the city as the sun quickly changed the sky hues through a gamot of colours then suddenly dropped behind the skyline.
Mel, Rachel and Andrew, supporters of the great work Book Aid International do, took us for a fantastic feed in the evening. What a feast! Thank you! Although it was the only meal we had yesterday it was huge, delicious and made going without during the day worth while! How guilty we felt, as we sat there with our over filled bellies, thinking 'Hmmm surely going without is supposed to be harder than this!' We are very grateful that we have clothes on our back, and nice clothes at that too, and that we are being fed delicious food by supporters.
Here is the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it. Read a cheeky bit more!
Off With Your Pants! Day 1 of the Cheeky Trip!
Day 1-What a wonderful response! We were out there in the Valley Mall yesterday wearing our bin bags. Before we got there people were waiting around to donate goods to our cause.
The Wicked Campers girls brought a custom made van door with our names sprayed on it, nice! I wonder how long it will take using this Fred Flintstone type vehicle without wheels?
We spent the day the whole day under the glaring sun in sweaty plastic (it didn't end up raining like we feared.) We endured all the laughing, pointing, gasps, looks of horror and sympathy but met some wonderful people throughout the day.
The stall holders in Valley Mall kept us in constant supply of refreshment and food and many donated items from their market shops.
People offered us places to stay, jobs to do, many donated items for us to wear and we have a hostel to stay in throughout our time in Brisbane until Wednesday.
We've a bunch of thanks to give Susie Gardiner who made a fantastic banner and some delicious home made biscuits. We'll be using this banner all around Australia Susie! Thanks, thanks and more thanks!
Anne was very surprisingly interviewed for a fashion magazine, which stated her dress sense as "interesting". She described her bin bag/garbage sack look as.... "Street skip rat," or "RUBBISH!" Gareth's mum adds.
Carlie from Nova radio came down to give us a bag of goodies! Thank you lovely.
As you can see from the video, Gareth did try to smuggle some biscuits but he was soon found out during the de-robing session. EVERYTHING was given up to the two beautiful girls at Wicked Campers. Sorry about the low quality of our video, we are waiting for the girls to send us a clearer, more professional link but until then we will have to do with the one my sister took on her little camera.
Please visit the Book Aid News page, where you can see what we are doing for them over the next four months.
Thank you so much to all those great people who have offered beds, food and jobs up the eastern coast of Australia. We will be seeing you soon. We are still looking for a few more jobs and beds between Townsville and Mt. Isa and further west. If anyone has anything to offer we would love to hear from you.
Phil would like to thank Gareth and Gareth would like to thank Phil.
We spent most of the day without footwear but by the middle of the afternoon we could walk home safely. Phil would like to thank the very giving guy who took the shoes off his own feet to give to him on the spot! Wow! That is generous!!!!!
What an inspiring day. The support and encouragement we received was phenomenal and we are so very grateful to everyone who left all the positive comments in our message book. We appreciate everything that people have done for us. We understand that there is a lot being done behind the scenes which we will never know about, such as people spreading the word about our cause and about Book Aid and we thank you all for your had work.
Wow! After a day in the sun clad in black plastic, sweaty and smelling a little stale. We feel great in the knowledge that the world is a great place full of people with a good sense of humour for a great cause.
Read a cheeky bit more!
The Wicked Campers girls brought a custom made van door with our names sprayed on it, nice! I wonder how long it will take using this Fred Flintstone type vehicle without wheels? We spent the day the whole day under the glaring sun in sweaty plastic (it didn't end up raining like we feared.) We endured all the laughing, pointing, gasps, looks of horror and sympathy but met some wonderful people throughout the day.
The stall holders in Valley Mall kept us in constant supply of refreshment and food and many donated items from their market shops.
People offered us places to stay, jobs to do, many donated items for us to wear and we have a hostel to stay in throughout our time in Brisbane until Wednesday.
We've a bunch of thanks to give Susie Gardiner who made a fantastic banner and some delicious home made biscuits. We'll be using this banner all around Australia Susie! Thanks, thanks and more thanks!
Anne was very surprisingly interviewed for a fashion magazine, which stated her dress sense as "interesting". She described her bin bag/garbage sack look as.... "Street skip rat," or "RUBBISH!" Gareth's mum adds.
Carlie from Nova radio came down to give us a bag of goodies! Thank you lovely.
As you can see from the video, Gareth did try to smuggle some biscuits but he was soon found out during the de-robing session. EVERYTHING was given up to the two beautiful girls at Wicked Campers. Sorry about the low quality of our video, we are waiting for the girls to send us a clearer, more professional link but until then we will have to do with the one my sister took on her little camera.
Please visit the Book Aid News page, where you can see what we are doing for them over the next four months.
Thank you so much to all those great people who have offered beds, food and jobs up the eastern coast of Australia. We will be seeing you soon. We are still looking for a few more jobs and beds between Townsville and Mt. Isa and further west. If anyone has anything to offer we would love to hear from you.
Phil would like to thank Gareth and Gareth would like to thank Phil.
We spent most of the day without footwear but by the middle of the afternoon we could walk home safely. Phil would like to thank the very giving guy who took the shoes off his own feet to give to him on the spot! Wow! That is generous!!!!!
What an inspiring day. The support and encouragement we received was phenomenal and we are so very grateful to everyone who left all the positive comments in our message book. We appreciate everything that people have done for us. We understand that there is a lot being done behind the scenes which we will never know about, such as people spreading the word about our cause and about Book Aid and we thank you all for your had work.
Wow! After a day in the sun clad in black plastic, sweaty and smelling a little stale. We feel great in the knowledge that the world is a great place full of people with a good sense of humour for a great cause.
Read a cheeky bit more!
Come See Us De-robe!
Sunday 21st September from 9am.
Fortitude Valley Mall sunken area.
We will have a ceremonial de-robing moment, when we don our fetching black bin bags and give up all our worldly goods. Come and see us, laugh at us, point at our limelighted goose pimples and say to yourself "Mmmm....rather you than me mate. You look like a wally!"
We need all the help we can get so please come down to show your support, leave a donation, bring us some knickers or just give us a supportive word. We are a little nervous but we have full faith in the people of Brisbane and the people of Australia. Read a cheeky bit more!
Fortitude Valley Mall sunken area.
We will have a ceremonial de-robing moment, when we don our fetching black bin bags and give up all our worldly goods. Come and see us, laugh at us, point at our limelighted goose pimples and say to yourself "Mmmm....rather you than me mate. You look like a wally!"
We need all the help we can get so please come down to show your support, leave a donation, bring us some knickers or just give us a supportive word. We are a little nervous but we have full faith in the people of Brisbane and the people of Australia. Read a cheeky bit more!
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