Title Sponsors

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Stevinson is a local dealership that has partnered with us as our title sponsor. They have provided the vehicles for the expedition along with financial support. Stevinson was essential in getting us on the road and helping us with parts, support and the most important part…the vehicles.
Toyota will also be joining this sponsorship as they will be rolling us out with their launch of the new re-designed Tundra. In cooperation with Toyota, Stevinson has helped roll out the new truck as part of the expedition. The 2007 Tundra we have driven around the world had no mechanical issues or real problems going through some of the worst conditions imaginable.
Native Energy leverages market demand for carbon offsets to bring on line new Native American, family farmer and community-owned renewable energy projects, Native Energy offers third party verified and certified renewable energy credits and offsets from a variety of operating projects across America and internationally. Through its novel approach of bringing upfront payment to renewable projects for the estimated future carbon offsets, Native Energy enables its clients to help directly finance the construction of specific new wind farms and other renewable energy projects. Native Energy continues to focus on real, additional offsets that provide both an environmental and a social benefit, for both people and planet. More information is available at www.nativeenergy.com .
toy_tec Toytec Lifts was started in 2002 with a simple idea for Toyota lift kits at a reasonable price. They sponsored the new much needed suspension kits for the trucks when we were in Mongolia, and although they may have a commitment to low prices, the quality of their products is held to an extremely high standard. With a myriad of different products from front coil overs, rear lift shackles, shock extenders, rear LCA skids, and coil springs they are the place to go for improved suspension on your truck. As a manufacturer that still sells direct to the consumer ToyTec Lifts can save you as much as 40% off prices. With such great prices on their products and a chance to test these suspension kits on the road, we wonder why we ever drove Little Pepe and the Thundra without them.
performance Performance Tire and Wheel has provided us with new wheels and tires for the vehicles. Since the wheels and tires that come stock on a vehicle are not exactly designed for the roads and terrain that we will be encountering, we needed to do some upgrades. Our friends at performance made sure that we have the right setup for the expedition. They will also be providing ongoing support whenever we have flats or problems along the way. As the largest independent wheel and tire dealer in the United States and a local Colorado company, we should have no problems in this department. Click the logo to the left to checkout their online store with great deals on tires and rims.
image YouTube is featuring our video clips on their video site. Currently some featured clips average nearly 100,000 views per day. It is exciting to have the opportunity to syndicate our content to the growing YouTube audience.
thule Thule makes excellent rack systems and has sponsored most of our rack and storage systems for our trucks. Although our rack on the Tundra was a custom job, everything else is Thule. From the rooftop storage box to the extra straps, we certainly have a lot of reliable gear. Thule has also pledged to assist us throughout the trip and will be featuring us on a new website that they are launching.
Emusic is now the second largest download engine on the internet for MP3s. They do things a little different than Itunes and the rest of the competition by giving the users more liberal licenses to the music they download. Emusic has agreed to generously help us in many ways. First they will be giving us music to use with all of the video and podcasts we produce, making our content even better for our audience. Secondly they have pledged to help us monetarily in exchange for promotions of their memberships, so try out a membership today and help us get around the world.
Lonely Planet is going to be helping out with the trip in many ways. The is one of our most exciting sponsorships as we will be working closely with Lonely Planet to do many things. Above and beyond general sponsorship, we will be working to produce content, setup cooperative efforts to promote world travel and more.
rgLogo Rough Guides came through at the halfway point in the expedition.  They provided books and maps for the South America, Central America and Mexico portion of the expedition. Their waterproof maps are some of the best we have used on the entire expedition and their guidebooks have surpassed anything else we have used by far.

A1 A1 Scuba is our partner for all of our scuba equipment and activities. They have generously donated all of our essential scuba gear including fins, regulators, masks, snorkels, and underwater housing for our cameras. They will also be using their travel agency to help line up cool and interesting dive sites for us to visit and do stories on. Whenever we do a story with A1 we will have it all lined up with more info so all of you can easily learn more about how to get to that destination and do the dive yourself. As a local company from our home in Colorado, we are very excited to have them on board as a partner
Cineform CineForm makes unparalleled video editing products. They have given us their Prospect HD program as an add on to Adobe Premiere Pro. This software will be an invaluable tool for us while editing HD video. They will also be on hand to provide us support with the software. If you are serious about editing and working with HD video, this software is the choice to take your work to the next level.
are A.R.E. provided The World by Road with a Deluxe Commercial Unit (DCU) for the Tundra and did so when most other companies did not even have the dimensions for the truck. The DCU is made from aluminum and it’s durability and windowless design provide added security for our equipment. The topper design also allows us to access cargo from three sides and includes a mounted toolbox to help us better organize our gear. ARE is hands down the leader in the industry for truck toppers, we would not use anything else.
vikinglogo Viking River Cruises has generously contributed financial support to the expedition.  Their top notch river cruises are a great alternative way to see the countryside of a place and enjoy excellent food, accommodation and activities.  Hopefully someday the crew will get to enjoy one of them.
RipBoard_Logo Rip Board has donated two of their classic model rip boards. These are like boogie boards for rivers. We will be taking these down many rivers throughout our travels. If you would like to try them out, go to the website. They take people out on regular trips all summer on the rivers in Colorado and you can also purchase the boards online.
warn Warn has donated one of their world class winches to the expedition. We will most definitely be using this winch in the numerous tight spots we get into while we are on the road. Having the world’s premiere winch company on broad will certainly be an asset to our success.
kata_logo Kata Bags has generously given us two of their top of the line professional camcorder bags. They also make body armor and other security products. Their bags are quite impressive and it is easy to see that they put quality first in all of their products. I suppose that when a company makes body armor and products of that nature they clearly have the ability to make high quality, well designed bags to hold camera equipment.
sumolounge Sumo Lounge makes some seriously cool and comfy furniture. They contacted us about supporting our project and are now making sure that our team at home is comfortable with some of their Omni Lounge chairs. Since they recently jumped on board to help us out we are not sure exactly what we will be doing together, but one of their seats may be making its own trip around the world. Stay tuned for more info about that.
rosetta_stone Rosetta Stone makes excellent language education software. We will be using their software and web lessons to help improve our knowledge of the languages of the countries we are traveling to. They have provided us with online subscriptions and discs for our laptops.
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