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Life changes, surprises and wonderful encounters

Life changes, surprises and wonderful encounters

Life Changes. We have decided to move to the coast. Away from our children and grand-children. We got rid of everything and took just the things with us that we could fit in our Jeep and trailer and it included our two Rhodesian Ridgebacks. When you make a change like that, it brings you back to the essential things in life. What do I really need and what is just clutter. Some things just didn’t fit, no matter what I…

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A cold winter’s day of sunshine

A cold winter’s day of sunshine

A cold winter’s day of sunshine My weight loss journey changed my life and makes me  do things that I never could’ve dreamt of. Recently I told you how I entered my first ever mountain bike race. I showed you the pictures that were taken during the event by professional photographers but somehow it felt so isolated from reality and almost like I’m not telling the full story. I needed to bring you a bit closer to my world and…

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My first Mountain Bike Race

My first Mountain Bike Race

It was not even a dream now it is reality. How it started. Just more than a year ago, on the 28 February 2017, I embarked on a journey without knowing where it would take me. At the time, although I didn’t know it, I was actually on a journey that started some 9 months earlier when I desperately asked the Lord to heal me from my debilitating disease, chronic rheumatic gout. I remember that night when I got into…

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The dream continues

The dream continues

Another new experience that I didn’t even dream about a year ago. As my journey continues, I am experience new things happening to me that I never desired or even dreamt about a year ago. When I started my weight loss journey a year ago, I had no idea how my life would change. A little bit later today I am going to ride in one of the biggest mountain bike races in the country, the Hollard Juma. I’ll be…

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