Team Team Road Rajah

Team member change

Good and bad news for Team Road Rajah this week.   Tom is moving back to New Zeland this fall from London so he will not be able to make the trip.  In his place is Anthony, another researcher at the same centre in Ireland that Matt and Declan work at.  We're sad that Tom won't be able to make it, but Anthony will be a great addition to our entourage.  The only problem might be fitting Anthony into the Rickshaw as he is 6ft4in.  Matt and Dec are both around 6ft2in, so they will be having a hard enough time as well.   Planning is coming along, we will book flights this week and hopefully Dec can get his new passport before he leaves to work in Cali for the summer.

 Here's Anthony contemplating the meaning of life-

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Cliffs of Moher

Dec and I and a few others were on the West coast of Ireland last weekend for a bit of surfing and craic (as they say in Ireland).    We swung by the massive Cliffs of Moher - 200m above the open Atlantic ocean.  As I poked my head over the side I was gripped with fear.  I found myself thinking about driving across a potentially dangerous land that I know nothing about in a rick-shaw where I can't speak the language.  Am I crazy?? 

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Declan Delaney

Dazed and Confused. Especially dazed............ but especially confused.

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Matt Patterson

PhD researcher in Biomechanics at Clarity Centre in University College Dublin. Always up to support a good cause and always up for a great adventure - the RickShaw run seems to be the best of both worlds.

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Anthony

<p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><font size="3">Team Road-Rajah</font></strong></font></p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">An Irishman, a Canadian and a Frenchman are lost in the mountains of India in a rickshaw....</font> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Anthony, Declan and Matt are embarking on an adventure of a life-time across the north of India and Nepal in a riskshaw to raise money for the Maiti Nepal charity, which is set up and run through AFD.&nbsp; It offers help, support,</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt"> protection and rehabilitation to Nepali girls and women who are victims, or have been victims in the past of crimes such as domestic violence, trafficking for flesh trade, child prostitution, child labor and various forms of exploitation and torture.</span><font size="2">&nbsp; <a href="http://www.justgiving.com/Team-road-Rajah-Nepal" id="ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_cphMain_cphJGSiteContent__accountContent__yourPageHeader__pageUrl" target="_blank">http://www.justgiving.com/Team-road-Rajah-Nepal</a></font></font> </p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">At the very minimum we want to raise 1,000 Pounds for this charity.</font></font><br /><br /><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">The <a href="http://rickshawrun.theadventurists.com/" target="_blank">Rickshaw Run</a> is a race with over 60 other teams and starts at the beginning of September 2010.&nbsp; We are hoping to make the cross-country journey in two weeks.&nbsp; Please consider helping us raise money for this good cause.&nbsp; Any monies donated through the web-site goes striaght to the charity.</font></p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><font size="3"><strong>The team:</strong></font><br /></font></p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/gallery09/32946/400x400.jpeg" /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Matt, Anthony and Declan.&nbsp; We are all PhD researchers at the <a href="http://www.clarity-centre.org" target="_blank">Clarity Centre for Sensor Web Technologies</a> at <a href="http://www.ucd.ie" target="_blank">University College Dublin</a> in Ireland and will be conducting <a href="http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/SenseCam/" target="_blank">Sense-Cam</a> research during the trip to provide our followers with photo updates of how much trouble we have gotten ourselves into. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img height="92" src="images/gallery09/34986/400x400.jpeg" width="159" /></div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><strong><font size="3">The rickshaw:</font></strong><br /></font><div style="text-align: center"><img height="131" src="images/gallery09/33863/400x400.jpeg" width="262" /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><strong><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The race:</font></strong></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">With no preparation and less luggage we will be flying to the Indian Subcontinent to do our damndest to force a 150cc glorified lawnmower over thousands of miles of questionable terrain along the Himalaya in around two weeks with no support at all. </font></p><div style="text-align: center"><img height="265" src="images/gallery09/32972/400x400.jpeg" width="246" /></div> <br /><p>&nbsp;</p>