What's this all about?

You might think "yet another travelling blog?"...

It could as well be...

The purpose of this blog though is not solely to entertain...

A few years ago I was living and working in South America...

Having already seen poverty in many forms, physical and spiritual, I was gob smacked by the sight of a 6 year old boy hugging a can of glue on a roadside of Medellín, Colombia…

I was told that this can was his most valuable possession…

A ticket to a different world, with no cold, no hunger, no death squads after him…

He had no other way out…

I stared at his eyes only to see the vacuum left by the toxic fumes he was inhaling…

I had a ticket out myself and used it to come back to the western world…

But I’ve not forgotten the sight of that boy since…

Neither have I forgotten the work of a man that has been salvaging similar children deep from the sewers of Bogotá…

Single handed at the beginning and through the Fundación Niños de los Andes later, Jaime Jaramillo has been offering hope where there’s only been fear…

Now, ready to depart on a new march, across Siberia and Mongolia, on my way to China, my thoughts are with that boy…

Tickets in hand, I want to share the experiences from my inner and outer march and to help raise funds for the Fundación…

But, most importantly, raise awareness of what is out there, a few steps from our comfortable lives…

With no ticket out…

Sit back... let the double march begin...
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