Our first post!
Coming up to this trip... it feels almost like a high-school graduation; the giddiness, the fear, the excitement of a beyond. The start of something bigger and better than yourself. The start of something that is, admittedly, very dumb. To write our first blog feels like our commencement speech, full of encouragement and enlightenment.
And no graduation speech is complete without a trope quote from someone famous.
Elenaor Roosevelt once said, "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourselves, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
And we all three make this promise:
We will gain strength in making the 3000 kilometer trek from the south of India to the North.
We will gain courage from risking all the street food.
We will gain confidence from making it to our final destination.
But most importantly, we will try and face the horror that we have had the privilege to never know, by trying to raise money for two incredibly important charities that are near and dear to our hearts. We encourage everyone to give whatever little or much as they can to benefit these two amazing organisations that span tens times more than the distance we are driving.
1. Saving the rainforests by helping the indigenous people take it back
https://www.coolearth.org/
2. Feeding the hungry
http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/
All of your giving could take these people so much further than our stupidity may ever take us on this race.
From John, Mitchell, and Lara - we thank you.
Day 1
Coming up to this trip... it feels almost like a high-school graduation; the giddiness, the fear, the excitement of a beyond. The start of something bigger and better than yourself. The start of something that is, admittedly, very dumb. To write our first blog feels like our commencement speech, full of encouragement and enlightenment.
And no graduation speech is complete without a trope quote from someone famous.
Elenaor Roosevelt once said, "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourselves, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
And we all three make this promise:
We will gain strength in making the 3000 kilometer trek from the south of India to the North.
We will gain courage from risking all the street food.
We will gain confidence from making it to our final destination.
But most importantly, we will try and face the horror that we have had the privilege to never know, by trying to raise money for two incredibly important charities that are near and dear to our hearts. We encourage everyone to give whatever little or much as they can to benefit these two amazing organisations that span tens times more than the distance we are driving.
1. Saving the rainforests by helping the indigenous people take it back
https://www.coolearth.org/
2. Feeding the hungry
http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/
http://www1.wfp.org/
All of your giving could take these people so much further than our stupidity may ever take us on this race.
From John, Mitchell, and Lara - we thank you.
