12 glorious days to go!
“Prior and proper preparation prevents p*ss poor performance” has been a guiding principal for me for many years. I’ve taken it into my working life, family, horsemanship and most definitely into project planning for each of the three ride4acure ventures. Every day I prepare myself and methodically work through tasks that need to happen to keep taking us toward the bigger picture. It’s the small things that add up to be a big things-achieving an awesome outcome relies on the daily focus on small details, often mundane, hard, difficult, sometimes stretching the realms of possibility but relying always on the ‘it will come’ philosophy. So far so good. I definitely don’t sweat the ‘small stuff’, things either work out or they don’t…fortunately mostly they do!
I am on the pointy end of the planning and organising for this trek and it’s been a whopper. I realised this morning that the idea of packing my house up in the next week to put into storage seems like a small thing compared to the other work I’m doing! (That says it all to those who know about moving house!)
I picked our truck up from Venture Smash Repairs in Kempsey yesterday
Isuzu Makeover Stage 1!
with it’s fantastic ‘makeover’, it’s now painted pink, white & grey and is off at Mavins Trucks now for a service, then it’s signage at Kempsey Signs where Brian and Brent Stringer have some gobbsmackingly awesome work to do on it that will make it stand out as we travel across the country. Then off to Fosters Southside Tyres for an upgrade, and back to neXgen Engineering for James Findlay to finish off some internal metal work. It’s all coming together.
I woke up at 3am this morning (not unusual-my mind is a little ‘busy’ at the moment, and I practice a little meditation to slow things down). I like working very early in the morning so I’m just going with it. I turned on the ABC radio and the Overnights show was talking about the Nullabor, so I rang up and ended up having a ripper interview straight after the 4am news.
Esther continues to train the horses daily, they (horses & Esther!) are reaching peak fitness, looking fantastic thanks to the wonderful sponsorship we have from Manuka, Mitavite and Clarke Horseshoes.
Keep your social calender free for Sunday May 1st our Eve of Trek Fundraiser at Crescent Head Tavern 3-6pm where we have live music and an auction. We have some fabulous items for auction including 4 intro flying lessons with Mid Coast Flying, B & B accommodation, $200 car service, Jann Kesby ceramics (local legend and world famous ceramics artist!) and much much more. And of course the next day 2nd May 9am departure from Crescent Head Day 1 of 97 days crossing Coast2Coast!
