GEO Adventure Magazine Dec. 2014 | Page 49

B efore telling you more about this interesting journey, its genesis and development, we have to do a retrospective exercise and go back to the moment when Sebastian and Oliver decided to travel to South Africa to work as volunteers in the 19th edition of the Football World Cup 2010. Their duty as part of the support teams of the event back then, required a very long daily commute. Reason why they agreed to rent a small and cheap car, which turned out to be a 1969 Volkswagen Beetle – known in Costa Rica as a “vocho”. And thus, this new member joined the adventure: “It was falling apart. They gave us the chance to personalize it with some stuff, so we went to the drugstore and bought spray paint and drew the “Sele’s” flag on it.” “Because of our admiration for Mauricio Montero (La Liga player) we named him after his nickname, “El Chunche”. W