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17 July 2003..
The Challenge of a Lifetime
It was quite an epic journey. It has been done before, but I know of only two folk
who have gone 'solo’ and both of them needed a change of horses. We left the Bluff on 20th October 2001.
We arrived at Cape Reinga with the horses fit and well on 29 May 2002.
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In those seven months we
- travelled 2832km on the map: allowing for vertical difference this
is about 3360 km.
- spent 122 days travelling, 25 rest days en route and about 4
weeks off.
- spent 23 days promoting RDA.
- were held up by weather conditions. or uncrossable rivers on 8 days
- used 56 horse shoes, only one lost.
- incurred no significant lameness or injury.
- visited 17 RDA groups, involving over 150 children and adults with disabilities.
- visited 33 schools.
- raised iro $13,000 for the New Zealand Riding for the Disabled Association.
- raised iro £14000 in the UK for the Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy and for the Brooke Hospital.
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We met many wonderful people, became intimately acquainted with a very narrow line of spectacular New Zealand Landscape and got to know each other far better than horses, bears and people normally do.
A round-up
HERE.
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Youngsters - follow the bear to Jacko's Page. 
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Special thanks to IHUG , our ISP in New Zealand. Their sponsorship
enabled Mary to dial up wherever she was, without charge, and their helpful, upbeat, friendly
'Helpline team' bailed her out on many occasions!!
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