thabang

Thabang Skwambane has done it! He has completed the Lonely Road Challenge and thus has reached his dream... the top of the mountain, so to speak both metaphorically and physically!

Having successfully riden a bicycle from Johannesburg to Kilimanjaro and then having climbed the mountain - Thabang has proven clearly that ANYTHING is possible and Dreams do come true! Well Done Thabang.... big kisses and love from the Fairy G!

Thabang is now in Arusha, Tanzania, and taking a well earned break
before pedalling the final 90km to Moshe on Thursday. Next week
Thabang starts his ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro, to summit Uhuru Peak at
5,895m!

Pledge Thabang for every kilometre cycled and every metre climbed - download the pledge form at http://www.thelonelyroad.org/tlrc-pledge.pdf

Visit http://www.thelonelyroad.org/on-the-road for Thabang's Bicycle Diaries and photos from his trip.

Thabang has now been on The Lonely Road Challenge for 20 days, only two of which have been rest days. He's crossed three borders, is now in country number four, Zambia, and has cycled a total of 1,725km of the nearly 5,500km route. So nearly a third of the challenge is already behind him but he still has a long way to go!

Last night we had our first Director's meeting of the Lonely Road foundation.  It was great to get everyone together and it was wonderful to feel so supported.  Grace and I have been doing this on our own for the last few months and now it feels like we are getting support from other people to make it happen.

This was me presenting the Lonely Road Foundation and the Challenge outline to the directors.

Then everyone chipped in with ideas, contacts and suggestions - it was great.

I need a bike, a strong one and one that can carry me to Kilimanjaro. I thought hard, had the intention and felt that something will come through. Today I met Scott Gibson a thoughtful, considerate man who owns a part share in a bike shop and is an avid cyclist. He has many contacts in the cycling industry and has put me in touch with them. One of them is Johann an importer of Bianchi bikes and it looks like I will have a bike to make the journey.

There is a Chinese proverb that says “you don’t know there is a ditch over there until you fall into it”. I knew that we had to try London – to raise awareness and funds for The Lonely Road Challenge. If all else failed we would have made many contacts and there would have been a small amount of awareness created.  Not all would be lost by our sojourn to the United Kingdom. Armed with facts on Aids Orphans, belief in our work and a passion for making a difference, Grace (my project manager and girlfriend) and I headed out to, the “centre of the financial world”, London.

I have just arrived back from my trip to London to raise awareness and money for the tour!! London was very hectic but it was very successful.  I said I wanted to raise £10,000 and that’s what we did, in one week! Awesome…

Gonna give a full run down soon but just landed and trying to catch up with lost time/e-mails/life/etc.

What a perspective one gets when you sit back and think about your life and your ambitions. I watched a DVD that my Fairy Godmother recommended called… “The Secret ”  and it was exactly what I thought, you are what you think. You are the only one who has the power to create your existence. If you think you are not OK you will feel that you are not OK and then your life will not be OK!