And the count down starts…

Wiebke here. Only 20 (!!!!!) days ’til I leave for India, 22 days ’til our boot camp starts, 68 days and the cycling begins. 154 days ago, I wouldn’t have dreamt of what’s to come. 153 days ago there was a spark, an idea, an inspiration.

Since then, there’s been countless hours of planning, writing, discussing underlying theories and questions, spreading the word, improving the concept and fundraising, fundraising, fundraising. Within 90 days we’ve raised well over 14.000 EUR – in cash or in-kind, not counting the priceless contributions like logo, website, training in our 1-month bootcamp and other things yet to come.

All of this is already covering 83% of our equipment needs!! We’ve got a top-notch HD video cam, 480 Euro for our respective health insurances, 960 Euro for my flight, 156 Euro for the Visa fees, 14 Euro for our Web Hosting package for the 1st year, 186 Euros for two mega-sized external hard drives to store our pics and films and documents and just today, 500 Euro came in from an anonymous contributor for cycling gear & tools.

Now it’s down to bicycles (something really big must be waiting for us with all the ‘thank you but no thank-you’ we’re getting on that one), camera accessories, mobile phone chargers & mounts for the bike, sleeping bags and thermo mats. Awesome!!!! As Trent zum Mallen said the other day: “You are awesome! We are awesome! Together we are even awesome!” And it’s simply for this reason that I dare to take the risk to jump into the unknown, to jump at the risk of (yet another) failure (???). To jump knowing there is an amazing bunch of people who believe in questioning assumptions, in looking deeper and in entering the rabbit hole.

Let’s make the glass half full!!