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MICA Travels are a group of family and friends that are dedicated to raise awareness of Bile duct cancer and sepsis, two illnesses that claim 1000’s of lives each year and are barely known about. I lost my wife; our sons lost their mother and many others lost a dear friend. We as group will be doing a series of endurance activities to raise money for these charities as a lasting memorial to Carol, so that our sudden loss is not in vain.

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Lockdown Challenge - Day 23

Posted in Our Fundraising Journey by Peter Hall
Lockdown Challenge Day 23

The last Friday of the challenge, and what a miserable start to the day, nothing to be seem but fog and more fog!

Never the less we still made our way out for a walk on our lunch break, sporting some rather eye catching clothing, we went to our local park for a walk and took the opportunity to get some photos too.

One of the areas in the park is by a pond, which looked rather eerie with all of the fog around, the park completely deserted and quiet which gave us time to reflect on whats happened, the challenges we are doing, why we are doing them, and how we can help eachother push on to the next phase.

Mike looking over a misty lake in a purple reflective vest with the Mica Travels logo on

Two members of our team have a Cricut machine which allows them to make vinyl transfers for things like clothing and stickers. We had the high vis vest made up as we dont know what visibility will be like in some of the fells. So this should help us appear to be more visible and also allow us to spread the word when we are on our trips around the country.

Mike leaning against a tree wearing a purple Mica Travels reflective vest
Mike leaning against a tree wearing a purple Mica Travels reflective vest

A couple of shots here showing the front and rear of the vest.

Summary for the day:

1782 Miles travelled, 218 miles to go, 4 days left!

Its going to be a close finish!

All the best

Pete

The MICA Travels Team

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