So here we are 90km from home after nearly 5 months and 6700km on the Road! It felt completely surreal to cross the Great Fish River and to arrive in the Border Region, my home and the heart of the Eastern Cape. We received a brilliant welcome at Mpekweni Beach Resort (one of my sponsors) and were delighted to see so many friends and colleagues from Global Business Solutions (my sponsor and “employer”). The weather in the E Cape is absolutely horrendous – very uncharacteristically for this time of year it is pouring with freezing flood rain and the Easterly wind is pumping. As a result of the foul weather we have, together with our sponsors, decided to delay our arrival in East London by one day and we will now arrive at Nahoon Beach (where it all began on 1 March) at 2pm on Tuesday 26 July.
It is excrutiating to be so close to home and have to delay. Peter, Hannah, Kirsty and I are all desperate to get home and be reunited with family and friends, stop packing and moving every day and sleep in our own beds. But we are also really bleak that this amazing adventure is nearly over. What a privelege it has been, what a lifetime of memories have been created in 5 months! We have spent the afternoon putting a photo album together for Hannah to show to her school friends – it seems impossible that a 6 year old could have seen and done so much!
We will post pictures of the last day and a trip summary later in the week.
[noteblock] 2 days to go [/noteblock]
Author: Kim
FINISH LINE
Date: Tuesday 26th July
Place: Nahoon Livesavers Clubhouse
time: 2:00 - 2:30
Comments
7 CommentsJohnny Goldberg
Jul 25, 2011Hi Kim and team from New York. So sorry we could not be there for your arrival but in our thoughts as you finish this amazing journey. We are most proud of our association with you and to have been part of this accomplishment. We salute you from Los Angeles as you arrive tomorrow on the beach. This leg of your journey most certainly won’t be your last. We cannot keep you two in one place for too long! Regards to all and thank you for sharing this experience with us. From all of us at GBS, regards Johnny
Sue Bentley
Jul 25, 2011Looking forward to welcoming you home tomorrow – let’s hope the weather is kinder than it is today! Ride well!!
Craig
Jul 25, 2011Wow! It’s nearly over for now! Congrats and can’t wait to read about you crossing the finishing line tormorrow, thank you for sharing this experience Regards
Craig
tallie
Jul 25, 2011Kim enjoy every moment tomorrow it is yours and you will never forget it……….so proud of you and your team
Nicky & Andries
Jul 26, 2011Awsome achievement!You are a superwoman!!Welcome back.You have been missed by a lot of people.See you soon at the finish!
Justin
Jul 26, 2011Yeehaaaa! Home James. Time to clock up some hours on your own bed, with clothes and food that live in your cupboards. No more “where next?”. Now it’s “who’s next?” hey. All the best as you enter this new phase. God’s massive favour on you guys.
May everyone empty their wallets for the Carel du Toit kids.
tallie
Jul 26, 2011Kim you did it…..WEL GEDAAN
…hope to see you at the dinner evening in November perhaps