Morning all, yep wide awake when I should be snoring!
Guess I’m excited to be spending hard earned dosh on myself for once. To put a little flesh on those words, remember my ‘Thoughts’ thread and Dan’s ‘Weightloss and accountably’ thread? Well the up shot of it is gaining momentum: I’m getting the weight-loss back on track, I’ve developed an idea with Dan to undertake a massive personal life challenge. With Dan undertaking his new business this year and me undertaking business developments too, we are now looking at September/October 21 for the event. It is along the lines of this:
LaFolle adventure enKayak
Kayak from London (City) to Dover, ferry across (getting a license to cross by Kayak is ridiculous unless you are claiming asylum), back in at Calais, down the coast to the Somme, canals and rivers to Reims, and Lyon, on to the Mediterranean where we will again paddle around the coast to St.Tropez. All in all, a little over 1,000 miles!
All of this will be supported by Ian (BennyD) of this parish with a suitable support vehicle. The aim of this is to get fit and raise a shed load of money for the memory of Ian’s son Ryan and some other worthy causes. We are hoping to be joined on sections of the trip by some of you, maybe a day, an hour or more.
So today I’m off to Kent Canoes to get kitted up for a reccy trip with Benny at the end of the month to investigate some of the trickier sections of the route to make sure it is even possible to get through under human power
The 1,000 miles is estimated to take around 6 weeks. .
It is just another example of the power of this amazing forum that the merest suggestion of a bonkers idea gets supported with floods of offers, Dan and Benny were onboard in minutes, Not just them, you guys are amazing and I know the project will have such momentum by the time it gets underway, the physical side of it will be the easy part!
Have fun all...