At last – passing the 10 000km mark...
Somewhere in China our ododmeters clicked over and we found ourselves racing for the end - keen for rest and for being still...
posted by Singapore to Hong Kong by Bike at 2:27 AM
Monday, April 02, 2007
Somewhere in China our ododmeters clicked over and we found ourselves racing for the end - keen for rest and for being still...
About Me
a young woman with a passion for adventure, travel and anything outdoors and a fetish for tractors and poetry and find rest in perpetual motion, particularly on long trekking, hitch-hiking or cycling holidays.
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1 Comments:
To Live, to Love and to leave a Legacy....
Congratulations you two stunning women! "Respect mon" as our Jamacain friends would say.
Wow! What an incredible journey. What a multitude of experiences: sensory, auditory, culinary, physical, enotional and spiritual all moulded and some engraved into your very beings over a period of 180 life-changing days. You surely
are not the same two ladies that started the journey?
Dreaming a trip like this is easy, but actually doing it is a totally different matter, enduring it and completing it makes you unique and champions in my books.
Just reading your opening comments "Say 'yes' more often than you say 'no'", "passion for adventure ... find rest in perpetual motion' immediately sets you apart from the average (normal!) woman and told me that just reading you story was going to be an inspiring couple of hours. Gillian I have met you, you are a thoroughly professional woman, excellent at you job, friendly, impish, and full of fun. Erica I have only met you in your writings but my observations are that you are brilliant with words, also fun loving, philosophical, knolwedgeable, a sincere friend and a pocket dynamite?
I have really enjoyed your blog with its albums of pictures - it is true that a picture can say a thousand word i.e. the hair cuts!! you both look so different with long hair. But I like the short hair, one of my favourite pics was the "...battle against increasingly unruly hair"! My sneses didn't like the pics of fried cockroaches, worms in soup, snakes, and some of the food you were brave enough to sample. The pics of animal abuse were sad. Other pics were telling: like bum-chafe - Eina!, soot covered faces, pushing bikes thru mud, the island getaways, the roads - the what?; and the rural areas still in their natural and sometimes rugged beauty of Malaysia, Thailand, Laos and China, all great visual aids that makes your reader feel part of your trip.
I have come away having been touched by your bravery, and the magnitude of your determination. I sense that our Creator God touched your souls in a way you are yet to discover and that his grace and favour abounded mor than you realised. That while you thought you were doing all the receiving, you also gave something of your beautiful selves, a smile, a kind word; made someone laugh, made someone think, especially the women in the Far East who by and large are treated more as objects to be abused than beautiful created beings with feelings. You will never know if how just the sight of you two women enjoying such freedom and loving life might have given hope to some poor imprisoned soul. You surely have chosed to live, to love and to leve a legacy... I honour you.
The eternal youth in me says "I would love to do that" but my geriatric body just groans! So, I would love to join you on your next adventure with my eyes on your blog and on my knees in prayer. Till then....
Dee
4:47 AM
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