The final day on our El Camino journey of support for the Hunter Breast Cancer Foundation was an emotional one…
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El Camino de Santiago: Day 3 – 31.7km Palas de Rei to Arzua
We decided to make an early start today as we were facing our longest day of the trek with 30km of rural Spain to conquer. The plan was to get a lot of it out of the way before the weather warmed up. Always good in theory, but we had a long day ahead regardless of the weather. After breakfast,…
El Camino de Santiago: Day 1 – 25km Sarria to Portomarin
After spending most of the previous day travelling from Madrid to Sarria, we arrived in Sarria relieved to get off the road and excited about the following day, our first steps on the Camino! This would be my first time a team leader for Inspired Adventures after having completed three other fundraising treks as a participant to the Great Wall…
Another trek begins…
So it’s been two years, almost to the day, that I set out on my last fundraising trek for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service. Kokoda was by far, the most challenging yet. Not only physically, but emotionally and spiritually. That was one hell of a ride and you know what? I would do it all again in a heartbeat. It’s…
Kokoda Trek for Choppers 2013 – Day 8: Agulogo to Ioribaiwa
We depart Agulogo at 5.30am expecting to plunge knee deep into a muddy swamp, complete with leeches, mosquitos and whatever else lurks in these parts. We were pleasantly surprised by the low level of water in the swamp, although there was plenty of mud, we managed to move fairly swiftly through the spongy terrain for about an hour until we…
Great Wall of China – Day 3
The day started out wet, cold, and just a little miserable! We were all a bit weary at the thought of the climbing ahead. Magically though, as we pulled away from the hotel in our bus, the rain stopped and the clouds cleared, giving us a pretty spectacular day which is something for China… It was so clear that we could see the Beijing…
The Great Wall of China – Day 2
Well day 2 on the wall was an epic effort! After our 2 hour bus trip out of Beijing, we landed on the Jinshaling section of the wall, northern pass gate Gubeikou ready for a 16km trek. It started off quite hot, with a steep mountain climb through the bush to get to the wall. This was a little tough…
The Great Wall of China – Day 1
After our first few hours on the Wall yesterday afternoon, we spent the night in a magical little lodge high up in the mountains. Breathtakingly beautiful and very serene. We are all pretty pumped about this walk and our first taste of many many steps yesterday gave us a good indication of what the rest of the trek is going…
Faithfull Living 