The following is the content for a website I set up at http://www.justgiving.com/dannyclimber. I am running an Ultra-marathon stage event that consists of 6 marathons over 7 days, and this website gives people the opportunity to donate to the Earthwatch Institute, an organization that researches all sorts of environmental problems.
Thoughts about the Race
So against better [...]
My first impression of Ha’erbin was the outside temperature gauge on the front of my train car during the eight hour ride northward. I didn’t watch it consistently and so just got interspersed data from the linear trend downward, -1, -4, -7,-14, -16 deg. celcius. I feel like a wuss after having watched the news [...]
Dec. 18th, 2008 was a Thursday. I woke up early but Jennifer was starting to get a bad cold. She slept almost all morning. I went to breakfast. The breakfast room was next to the pool area and workout room. They had a pretty good breakfast bar with 4 or 5 stir-fry dishes, eggs cooked [...]
Jen and I departed Knoxville on the morning of Dec. 16. The flight to Chicago was uneventful but when we got to Chicago it was like, “hurry to the connecting Gate so we don’t miss our flight”. “Do we need to check in?” Yes then lets get a bite to eat and relax.” Then while we [...]
We rented bicycles and began the day by stopping at a produce stand for some fruit. After biking for about 45 minutes, we found a cave that was being turned into another tourist attraction. Then a man recruited us to take a ride down the river in a bamboo raft. The guy told us that the [...]
