My Fellow Trekkers

Only 4 months to go until departure and Oxfam’s Global Challenge team has just set up a group email so that we can share training tips and fundraising ideas and start to get to know our fellow trekkers. So far it looks like there will be 30 of us.

Reading the emails from everyone, suddenly everything seems much more real and yes it is happening - I am going to trek the Inca Trail to the lost city of Machu Picchu – awesome, scary and so exciting! What a fantastic challenge this will be.

It has also made me realise how much work I still have left to do with fundraising, sorting out my kit and getting fit. Everyone is working very hard on their fundraising, with lots of bright ideas on bringing in those all important resources to support Oxfam’s excellent work.

Just starting to learn a bit about my fellow trekkers; some are travelling with friends and partners but most like me, are travelling alone. There is a mix of ages in the group, ranging from 20 to late 50s:

There’s:
Carolyn from Horsham, West Sussex
Tania from Bangor in Northern Ireland
Lisa from Gosport Nr Portsmouth
Christine, who lives in a small village just outside Glasgow
Amanda from Oxford
Nick from Glasgow
Friends Claire and Marianne who are studying at Birmingham University,
Friends Shelley and Jo from Tunbridge Wells
Kate from Swansea (hoping to meet up with Kate before June)
Marisa from Newcastle
Gill from Horsham
Justine from Winchester
Partners Darren & Sian from Cardiff
Paul from Greenwich

I am really looking forward to hearing more from everyone over the coming months. It will also be great to eventually meet up in June and to put faces to names. I am sure we will all become very good friends as we support each other through the challenge and experience the magic of the heights of Machu Picchu.