The Gobi March was founded in honor of three missionaries, Mildred Cable and two sisters -- Francesca and Eva French. Mildred Cable and Eva and Francesca French were Christian missionaries who began their work in China around the turn of the century. After more than 20 years of doing routine missionary work in China, the trio headed northwest . to the Gobi Desert and beyond. Many of their colleagues were shocked. In the words of Cable, \\\"Some wrote, saying in more or less parliamentary language, that there were no fools like old fools.\\\"