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My LEJOG

I chose to ride Land’s to John o Groats to bring attention to the plight
of the people of Haiti. We at the Jela Foundation are trying to raise 1
million pounds towards building 6 water purification plants. The people
of Haiti need these water plants to provide them with clean, safe water.
I have been interested in the problems of Haiti since June 1983 and
when I meet a guy from Haiti. We became good friends and I wanted
to help, not only giving money but helping by giving time and effort to
help people in real need. We in the Western World take water for
granted, all we have to do is turn on a tap. They have to walk 5,6,7,8
miles to get water from a plant that Jela set up, but we need another 6
plants.

Please send me a cheque payable to Jela Foundation and know that you
are helping people in real need . Every penny goes to helping these people
not to any crooked government. Go to www.jelafoundation.org and see
what is being done.

My effort
I chose a company to go with Bike Adventures and their 9 days challenge,
plus I wanted to also do the distance inside 79 hours, which was a little
ambitious!

I got to Penzance on Friday so that I could relax, getting in a day early,
ready for meeting the rest of the group in Penzance on Saturday at
around 2-30pm. I stayed the night in the Queens Hotel right on the
waterfront. After dinner I went for a walk down to the harbour, and
got talking to some guys fishing. They were pulling in mackerel 3 and
4 to a line. They offered me a go which I gladly accepted and I landed
9 in about 8-9 minutes. There were 2 Dolphins in the harbour herding
in the fish towards the guys fishing. I have never seen anything like it,
it was so exciting.

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