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rickshaw run blogs jan 2014 North to south pan-india on a glorified lawnmower
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Every journey conceals another journey within it's lines; the path not taken and the forgotten angle. Jeanette Winterson Less than 40 days and 40 nights until our departure on the Rickshaw Run the length of India. Caught up in the illusion that we are mapping a clear path and getting ourselves organised. What about the journey within the journey. The causes and charities this event will support. What they DO or stop DO-ing to make the world a better place? We have selected two great causes to be beneficiaries of our journey hoping that what we put out here will come back to them threefold. Each of these organisations demonstrates great actions to take the world to a better place. Today is my admin day to work on the digital touch points for our adventure, to introduce our charities and to start the exchange between our sponsors and community partnerships. Getting the donate links to talk to the facebook team pages and back to DO home is a journey all it's itself. We've kick started the giving with a contribution to each charity. BE CAUSE their agendas are what is behind our epic journey. We want to involve you all in the journey and ask that you spread the word to others to DO the same. Live More Awesome is an organisation tackling depression head on in New Zealand. Creative strategists behind great initiatives to help others to Live More Awesome and to find other ways to deal with overload and depression. Jimi Hunt of LMA author of A little bit mental; is no stranger to doing epic things. His book tells the tale of a journey down the Waikato on a lilo. LMA have created the worlds biggest water slide, initiated the "Gratitude in schools" program and have some 25,000 followers who gain inspiration from their life shifting articles and innovations. Please click the donate now link to Give a Little to Live More Awesome. Go to their webpage on www.livemoreawesome.com to be inspired and find some tips for more Awe, and to read more about their GIVE ME FIVE strategy for funding. There ain't no journey that don't change you some - David Mitchell Cloud Atlas Cool Earth seemed ironic when I first envisaged myself in India - I was thinking summer, sand, etc. The reality is the Rickshaw Run is nothing about comfort, this is not a summer sojourn. Night temperatures will plumet and the tuktuks apparently only work for a while when they themselves are cool so 5am starts are our first tactic. Although the unroute may lead us through the beaches of Goa and environments already deforested; pictures of puffers and thermal blankets at the start makes me very aware of the climatic extremes we are likely to experience on our journey. These places - a long way from home are hard to envisage and connect to from a distance. Out of sight, out of mind perhaps. What if we DO think about them, engage with places and spaces outside of our comfort zones. What would we see there, learn there and find there...a call to ACT-I-ON? What of the journey for our planet, her forests and her future? Cool Earth is the primary charity of the overall Rickshaw Run Jaisalmer to Cochin January 2014 event. All teams registered ( I think there are 70 plus) in the January Run must contribute to raise a minimum of 500 pounds for this great cause. Cool Earth work with urgency to save tracts of rain forest under threat right now. If you have any desire to scare me donate then squillions. The team that raise the most money for Cool Earth win a trip to a piece of threatened forest complete with nightmarish bugs, and extreme conditions. To see first hand how Cool Earth work with indigenous people to save rain forests under immediate threat. The New Zealand local government clients that Edward and I work with through DO and Rationale have helped us to be very aware of the effects of climate change, changing use of assets and the impact on our world as we know it. Finding ways to protect habitats, and to live more sustainably are paramount to all our futures. Give to Cool Earth and know that your donation is going to a great cause. BE CAUSE without trees there just isn't as much to breathe.
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“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. A year from now you will have wish you had started today - Karen Lamb I'm juggling the learning of "staying in the now" with my manifestation skills and ability to create my own reality. A dream, an urge, a goal is fully future paced, it confuses me. How DO I put thoughts out there to attract what it is that I want to attract yet stay 100% present here and now? Without anxiety, care, concern. Without dreams, joy, excitement, happiness and the fun of imaging just what will I be DO-ing later, something is lacking. Anticipation is the power force behind actions, it creates my will, my ability to DO what it is that I need to DO today to get where I want to be. Stuff living in the now - I want to daydream my future. I want to add the colour the noises, the smells and the flavours to each and every experience that I want to attract into my world. As if it's closer than it may seem to be. I want to suck it to me like a slurpy slush. Knowing that the ice cream headache may be one bright smurf blue intake of freeze away, yet far too impatient to let matter soften and melt a little ...I just want to get on and have the thing! This morning's blog is posted as the second update to my Rickshaw Run challenge. The most exciting-wee-wow anticipative thing I had added to my reality in half a decade. Because this last weekend I've been rolling around in the anticipation of it. Booking flights, looking into visa requirements. Who would have guessed that along with Finland, Laos and Myanmar, good old gods own NZer's have membership to the club of nine countries able to get tourist visas on arrival into India? Even those from the land of OZ need to pre apply but not us... there is logic in there somewhere I'm certain. I've been trolling guest houses in the golden fort city of Jaisalmer , studying pictures of 1st class vs. 2nd class aircon train cabins from Jaipur and Jodphur. Drafting sponsorhsip proposals to those I think would have synergy from our mutual exposure. Who may choose to support us and our chosen charities during lead up events, blogs and on the journey. I have targets for creating value for those who will sponsor us - facilitating workshops for sponsors teams, following a pre-determined media plan with the foreknowledge that I will work with them to maximise the exchange. I've been adding radios, solar panels, funnels, kidney belts, driving gloves, suture kits and clean syringes to my packing list. For just one moment there I wanted it to be harder than I thought it was going to be. Be very careful what you wish for! I wanted to have to apply for the visa, to have my international drivers permit take three months of process. To feel like I was DO-ing the thing already. Training is helping - exercising, eating well, taking my vitamins. Adding detail pouring over pictures of how fit and prepped the Kings of Good times look in their pictures having just completed the April run as winners. Realising that so far we have an offer of sponsorship for our insurance because that is all I have asked for up until now. There is so much more still to DO. OOhhhhhh the excitement, the butterflies in my tummy. I can't wait to be there to smell the rubbish, the urine, the open sewers I've read of. The anticipation of road side hawkers, crispy pakoras and piles of water melons. The heady purchase of on-line glow in the dark gaffer tape and miscellaneous bling with which to pimp our tuk tuk. Anticipation lifted me out of a pre-snow Arrow seasonal affected disorder day. I sat bathed in the cosy glow of my yunca fire enjoying each and every child serene moment of their DVD watching. Connected to my future by the sights, sensations and stories of India. Like a mini break before the real deal and I plan to do a lot more of it. Tantalising out of reach our future is what we think it will be. Dissapointment lurks when we let the dream get too out of hand. If we D.A.R.E not take into account how another's journey can impact our experiences. How long the planning and preparation will really take with a few of the unforseen cul-de-sacs to take us through detours on the way. Sometimes we recognise how much we were anticipating something only by how blatantly life fails to deliver on it. When the person we have waited for all week decides to spend time with another. The longed for prescience, the presentiment can become a crush to the heart. When the ideas we held for how we were going to spend our time are shattered by the weather, lack of resources or an absence of support. When a higher power has taken the trump card and we are left kicking pebbles along the path of life wondering WTF just happened to our dreams. These are the times to remind ourselves that God has only two answers YES and not yet. That we may feel better by thanking the universe for the experience we have just had because somewhere in the scheme of life we put that thought out there or needed that lesson. So that further along in the journey we understand what it was that we needed to be DO- ing instead. So that the universe could bring us that or better. When the cosmic joke is fully on ourselves, we need to take a chill pill and stay exactly where we are here and now. Realising that perhaps we got just a little over excited, and arrived to early for the show. We may need to remind ourselves to put the work in, send the proposal, make the phone call. To stroke our self esteem and tell ourselves to calm the F* down. Enjoy the moment now and wait. You see - if we have truly dared to dream a little, to put out the thoughts, feelings and messages of what we want to create for our futures it will happen. Perhaps not right now, maybe even not in this dimension, in this lifetime - then in another. But because we are taught that it will be ok in the end. And as any dedicated studier of India in all her glory will know after a weekend of DVD watching we can "Eat , Pray , Love" on the Darjeeling Express while searching for our own Last Exotic Marigold Hotel where if it's not ok then it's not the end. Be sure to find something you can anticipate all day long. Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know? A lazy Saturday morning with the engineer trolling Facebook posts and laughing at friends adventuring across India on a pimped up lawnmower has somehow ...12 hours later translated into he and I being paid up entries into the January 2014 Rickshaw Run from Jaisalmer in Northern India to Cochin in the South as team Goodbye Curry Pie. New Years in the desert of India learning to dirve a weed whacker what more could a girl want? This is almost more excitement than I can deal with. Certainly a huge motivator to hit the health wagon, raise some money for a bloody good cause old chap and to laugh and plan our best yet bucket list adventure together as husband and wif. https://www.facebook.com/TheRickshawRunSupportSociety?ref=stream Support the team in the link above because they are out there right now DO-ing it... their stories, pictures and the manly colonial pith helmets they are sporting have been our catalysts. After two lifetimes of deliberation we are now certain this is how we are to explore India...the engineer and I have stumbled across our destined path. This is their charity of choice... and ours. http://www.givealittle.co.nz/cause/rickshawrun Please donate to LMA cause and encourage these April 2013 Rickshaw Run Kiwi's to fly. We will hit you up for ours in a little while... As tonight 9 months from our own departure in Jaisalmer we are blissfully warm, pampered first world inhabitants having just eaten a delish curry from Arrowtowns' Mantra restaurant to get us in the mood... 110% oblivious to the dramas that lie before us. Thankful that Oma has happily agreed to look after the Guy Girls... I'm wondering why I suddenly feel like a pie and a long lie down? |
Team: Goodbye Curry Pie
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