While one person I care about is out pedalling across Africa - other dear friends are taking their lives - shaking their environment like a rat in a terrier's mouth - and moving to Qatar to start a new adventure.
Mike is one of my oldest and dearest friends. Other than Derek, another swimming buddy from junior highschool - and a couple of others like them - he is the person I have known longest, and best for almost 30 years now. Not content to be acting Dean of a college department - Mike has decided to sell his home in Victoria, give up his job and move to the Middle East to teach so as to "live a little - and get a chance to try something new".
Man that takes some balls.
His wife Janice is also someone i have known and loved for years - and if MIKE has some stones for being willing to try a new career on the other side of the planet, I don't know what superlative one uses to describe a WIFE willing to pick up and support someone who wants to do so!
Janice has started publishing a blog detailing what it is like to start a new life.... check it out.
Folks like Mike and Janice / Spiros and Maria - these guys are taking "big bites out of life".... me? I think I got a repetitive stress injury a couple of weeks ago from my TiVO.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
An Amazing Journey
A dear friend and former colleague has just started out on an amazing adventure.... she and her husband are biking 12,000 kms from the mouth of the Nile to Cape Town - across Africa.
They are participating in a ride called the Tour d'Afrique.... 100 days - more than 100kms a day across a route that I would feel uncomfortable FLYING over.
God bless them - they are not doing it merely for the adventure but to help raise money for two interesting and compelling charities...... please take a look at their blog - (Maria writes really well - and her husband takes amazing photos)... and if you can please think about helping them with the fund raising.
http://cyclingtheroadlesstravelled.com/journal/
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