Got a lovely message from Dean Karnazes today, nice to have support from someone named by TIME magazine as one of the, “Top 100 Most Influential People in the World,” especially as training is beginning to hurt a little! Dear Kath & Dave, Best wishes on your incredible adventure. I am awe inspired and
Thanks to: Lucy Land for her wizardry in creating it, Experiments with Machines and Landscore Primary School for incredible sounds, and the extremely rare Giant River Otters for, well, just showing up at the right time…… If you cannot view the video here please follow this link to our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-phW7f_paA
I like running. I haven’t always felt like this. There was the burning stitch during school cross country runs; triathlons of endless
Cold water swirled around my feet as I stood in the old kayak and paddled to the bank. Damp earth squeezed between my toes as I metronomically tied up the kayak and padded into a wall of darkness. The track was familiar to me now, even in its blackness.
Ok, so they might not have shiny spoilers or alloy wheels, but our new, just released EL 32 SWAROVISION sponsored binoculars, are the racing car elites in the world of optics. And they’re about to get the test of their lives! Weighing in at a mere 580g, they effortlessly accelerate through our on-going concerns over …
We’ve been looking at the sky for weeks. The odd cloud passes, but they’re hanging on to their rain. After four years
Sorghum and bright spray-green dairy-cow pasture, stretch into the long undulating horizon of southern Uruguay. The landscape, like so many cities, could be transplanted across the world. Sometimes I look and I see
For people interested in what the expedition kit list looks like there here it is, warts and all, and our current status in assembling it as of 1200 today. I had wanted to include a full listing of weights etc for real kit nerds but will do so once everything is finally assembled. Each gram …
Sods law. Katharine dropped her sunglasses off the side of the boat – nothing unusual in that (we are cursed with sunglasses )– it happens a lot unfortunately. They were cheap of course but have now become rubbish too (they always were, but now they are officially “litter” on the riverbed
Its 0430, not a time we normally rise but this morning we have an appointment with the doctor in Montevideo to get some xrays on my leg, and that involves a 4 hour journey beginning now. We prise ourselves from our cosy bed, row our numb bodies to the shore, tether the dinghy and somehow …
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