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November 14, 2009 - 01:32 PM
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Digging the new site! I'm very impressed with how fast you've picked up web design & development. Most of all though, I'm glad to see your will is still as strong with your current challenge. Sorry to hear about you & Cat, but glad to see better & better news with each post. You're a huge inspiration for many people dude. Keep moving forward; things will happen..
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November 14, 2009 - 04:52 AM
mediasamuel.info
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Hello,
Your journey has touched and moved me. And that is not easy for an english man to do to me. (my dislike for your royal family is without measure)
It is in this last comment that I have discouvered that perhaps you are walking around the world for a cause and do not know it. You are in some ways, "ways that are not so small" destroying prejudices and hatred.
We are all different and all see things different. But you stand to be the first person with "true first-person" experience to see how we are same.
So allow me to ask this from you...
I know you do not want to walk for a cause. But will you walk for the cause of peace and tolerance ?
Beacause if so...
I think I have a few ideas for fund-rasiers. (I am from Québec canada with many contacts in france and do much business there.) I do not seek to sound all business.. But peace is something that might be able to sell to francophones. (québec, france and belge)
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November 12, 2009 - 05:18 AM
Robert
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Hi Karl,
keep up the spirit as I know you do -
you probably already heard of this:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/33878416
...at least it seems to brighten
slightly on the horizon - maybe?
/Robert
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November 09, 2009 - 11:22 AM
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Karl,
I met you briefly at a coffee house in Fairbanks Alaska 6 years ago (maybe more) when I was on a roadtrip. I was impressed then, and I'm more impressed now.
Stay strong.
Mike
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November 07, 2009 - 05:48 PM
David
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I am watching and hope we can welcome you in Graz-Austria. It is a pitty that in our times there is not much attention on goals like this. The money has always been more attractive or time seems like an opponent. Should be different...
You will finish your goal despite all the problems you have mentioned.
Remember your first vision! Where did it come from? You know...
Servus!
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November 06, 2009 - 04:53 PM
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Karl, The world is full of quitter's and corporate cock's who spend their lives feeling they have to have a business plan for their next trip to Waitrose but the real world is not like this. What you are doing is far beond the comprehension of most people and I am sure you don't need me to tell you to just to ignore them and their negative views. What is important is that you are still going and despite the set backs, you are looking at ways to solve them and to keep going. You WILL make it regardless of how long it takes and there are a lot of people out here who are very proud of you and what you are doing and will be there when you finally walk out of that tunnel back into the UK
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November 06, 2009 - 06:42 AM
Pete Skellen
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Hi Karl,
Thanks for taking the time and effort to respond to my entry on your blog, it is much appreciated!
I didn't mean to come across as being overly negative, i was just making various observations from a neutral, probably over pessimistic viewpoint as to what has passed and hopefully what is to come. The size of the task in hand is quite monumentally extra-ordinary and it will require the kind of dedication you showed when you started in Junior Para Coy as good old 1 Platoon on the 22nd Oct 1985! Its good that you remain strong in your resolve and this is all credit to you and your cause. I do hope you complete you Odyssey, even if it is outside your original timeframe, as we all know no plan survives the first contact anyway. Do you think there will ever be a time when you do say enough is enough? From what you have said, probably not.....
Utrinque Paratus!
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November 05, 2009 - 04:58 PM
mike
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i wish you well carl. hope things get sorted out asap. get back to hull soon.
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November 05, 2009 - 01:50 AM
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All I have to say is God Bless. You are a true icon of man's ability, desire, capacity, and hope. I know you will succeed.
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November 04, 2009 - 08:38 PM
Richard Lodge
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Firstly I would like to congratulate you on the progress made so far.
I can relate to you and your expedition as an ex-Royal Marine and now on a world exploration of my own. I recently travelled from my hometown Dudley, England, to Brisbane, Australia, without flying. The adventure was also used as a means of raising money and awareness for Help for Heroes and disappointingly only raised £500. It seems that the media and peoples interest is in watching people live in a house or the next manufactured pop star rather than the modern day explorers.
I read your book 'Giant Steps' whilst serving in Afghanistan and was one of the many books that inspired me to head out on my own adventure. Starting with sufficient money I was able to complete my journey to Australia and to live in Brisbane for 2 months now, but like yourself am faced with the ever growing problem of money! Now where you are looking for sponsors I am just looking for work without any luck.
I can also relate to your current problem of the halfway point as if I had stopped when I reached Singapore and flew to Australia the whole journey would have been pointless. However with a bit of determination and commitment I was able to sail from Singapore to Australia on a cargo ship. It seems you are now in Singapore and need a ship to get you on your way again and I hope that it comes for you soon, but after all the previous obstacles you have overcome I can see this being a minor glitch in what is a fantastic journey and story.
As for the defeatists on here they are simply our fuel that keeps us going. They are what make victory so much sweeter.
So from an ex-Bootneck to an ex-Para I wish you all the best and hope that Odyssey moving along again soon.
Richard Lodge
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