We are back!

Hi Everybody,

It's been a while. But we are back now. We are about to embark on our next adventure to Kathmandu. We that is Jude and Rob, Liz and Eric and Tanya, Zena (I hope I got the spelling right) and myself, Mads. Tanya, Jude and I will leave this Saturday, February 25th. We will be checking on our friends in Sermathang, Thakani and Kathmandu before the rest of the gang arrives the following week. This time around we are not organizing any races. Very sad, I know. It was just way too amazing and we didn't want to try to top a once in a lifetime experience. So this time we'll be just hiking a little bit. We're going to be in the Annapurna region and hike the circuit. They keep telling me that the pass that we are going to cross is about 5416m high. Yikes. So somebody please tell me why I live in flat country farmland Waterloo on about 5m above sea level with no mountain anywhere close by to train for that? But of course we're not just hiking a little bit? We are doing a little fundraising here and there as well. No big events or anything. We decided that we want to support a graduate of the Thakani school, Roshan, to go to medical school. Thakani has a little medical post that is unstaffed and abandoned. The headmaster's daughter went to Nursing school with the help of fundraising that Jude and Rob did. Both 'kids' want to go back to their village to staff the medical post and bring health care to their home village and the surrounding villages. Medical school is expensive even in Nepal where everything seem to be so cheap. We have decided to help out. How can you help us help? Stay tuned for more details. Soon we'll post more details about the trip and also the fundraising efforts.

Namaste,
Mads