The Great Driving Challenge

Off late, I’ve been interested in reading a lot of traveler’s logs and their experiences and I accidentally came across an event called ‘The Great Driving Challenge’, an event for bloggers who travel across the country. It’s a promotional event arranged for couples, by Mitsubishi with 12 day expense paid travel by the Mitsubishi Cedia.

Check out the link http://www.greatdrivingchallenge.com/ for more info on the event and through http://www.greatdrivingchallenge.com/featuredapplications to see the list of all the couples who have registered for the event.

All that is expected is for the couple to make a long trip, get some nice pictures done and write about their entire travel and experience on their respective blogs. Winning Prize…??? Big bucks of 1 million Indian rupee for the winning couple and a host of cool gadgets, mobiles etc for runner-ups. Pretty cool I guess, considering the facts- the vehicle is given, the trip is paid and prize money is not bad. Things that you need to qualify- know how to drive (I mean on long trips of 2000-3000Km…), be married (That’s pretty hard, cause personally…I’d rather give up the 1 million and remain bachelor…!!!) and last but not the least- get enough votes from public to become one of the 3 couples to enter the final event.

As I went through this website, I must say, quite a surprising number of participants have registered for the event, to put their driving & surviving skills to the ultimate test on roads. You’ll also find links to their blogs/ Orkut/ FB/ Twitter/ Flicker, their background info, pictures/ travelogues from their earlier trips, their proposed route for the event and also the list of people who have voted for them or written testimonials for them. All in all, it’s a page worth visiting atleast once daily to see the completion getting tougher, as time runs out and the event finally starts. I went through some of the posted profiles; particularly liked 2 of them and decided to put up a badge for one them below.



Do go through the profile at your leisure and vote for whoever you feel fit & should win the event. Personally, the one I’ve suggested has very good travelogues, testimonials and an exceptional blog at http://drivoblog.blogspot.com/ giving quite a lot of information/ tips for all you people out there wishing to start a travelogue of your own. Voting closes by 17th July and the final event is scheduled to be from 6th Aug till 17th Aug. So let’s gear up and give these love birds a push for the ‘Great Driving Challenge’.