Willie and Andrew Comedy Team to Take on the NT in the WorldNomads.com Van-Tastic Adventure

Applications for the Van-Tastic Western Australia leg close on February 28. The Van-Tastic Adventure finishes in Perth in June, 2010.

WorldNomads.com Van-Tastic Adventure AnnouncesWinners of Northern Territory Leg

February3, 2010, Littleton, CO - American comedy duo, Andrew Adams and WillieConcepción will turn their talents to capturing the wild and funny side of theNorthern Territory, as the winners of the penultimate leg of theWorldNomads.com Van-Tastic around-Australia Adventure.

Willieand Andrew met in a college comedy group and have been filming, writingand  performing skits, plays and rap routines ever since. They’re headingDown Under to undertake the ultimate Aussie road trip, picking up Geoff, theVan-Tastic Adventures van, in Adelaide on March 22 and dropping him off inDarwin on May 1.

Theirtask is to ‘road test’ the best of the Northern Territory’s holiday andadventure offerings - and share their adventures with the world via blogs andvideos on the Van-Tastic Adventures website.

Theirswill be the sixth of seven legs of the Adventure, which started in Queenslandand will see seven teams of travellers drive Geoff more than 30,000 kilometersthrough every state and territory of Australia. Andrew and Willie won theirfree, six-week adventure on the basis of their three application videos. (Onlyone was required – they were just extra keen).

TourismNorthern Territory, Van-Tastic and the Northern Territory tourism industry haveteamed up to provide Willie and Andrew with a swag of adventures to report onduring their trip.

“Ourrough plan is to bee-line it for Uluru to see sunset and sunrise on the Rock;take a motorcycle tour through the desert, then head to Kings Canyon and on toAlice, saying ‘yes’ to every adventure opportunity that comes our way – nomatter what,” says Willie.

“Fromthere, we plan to head north up the Explorers Way to Katherine, to Kakadu forsome croc spotting – and then to get right up close and personal with the bigreptiles in the Cage of Death in Darwin.”

Alongthe way, Willie and Andrew will get to swap Geoff the van for all manner oftransport options, including quad bikes, camels, helicopters, Harley Davidsons,canoes – and, of course, the NT is bound to turn up plenty of other unexpectedwild times.

Applicationsare still open for the final leg of the Van-Tastic Adventure, a competitiondesigned for enthusiastic and adventurous travellers who are willing to tackle– and capture on video - one leg of an Australia-wide road trip.

Thewinning team of one or two travellers will be flown from wherever they live toAustralia and will spend six weeks driving across the country in Geoff theVan-Tastic van, which is fuelled up and kitted out with camping equipment andall the technology to enable them to capture their adventure on video and inblogs.

Applicationsfor the Van-Tastic Western Australia leg close on February 28. The Van-TasticAdventure finishes in Perth in June, 2010. At the end of the trip, the viewingpublic will vote for the best video produced during the year-long, 30,000kilometre adventure – and the winning team will take home $10,000 cash.

To applyfor the remaining leg, and to see how the first teams fared on their holiday ofa lifetime, visit: http://vantastic.worldnomads.com