The Great Wall’ker

After having sorted out a lot of practical matters, I now have a very nice place to live (Many thanks Øystein!) and a monster computer that I will be using for writing the book and creating a presentation about the walk. Can’t wait to get started. As I re-discover pictures I have taken, I want to start writing more here, particularly more about the equipment I have been using. Also some advice to others that are considering or already planning on walking the Great Wall.

If you happen to live in Norway, tune in to the radio program Nitimen Saturday morning for an update on how things are going.

Det kommer et innslag på radio i Nitimen lørdag morgen, om turen, og hvordan det har vært å komme tilbake til Norge.

I have done this walk to raise money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Because of technical difficulties, we have not been able to invite you to make a donation before now.

If you have enjoyed following me on my lonesome walk along the entire Great Wall of China, please help me raise money for Cancer Research by clicking this link. The donation is in US Dollars $, the payment system is 100% secure, and you will receive a confirmation mail once the donation is made.

From the Dana-Farber website: Your support will help fund innovative cancer research programs here at Dana-Farber and bring us closer to finding effective treatments and cures for cancer. In other words, supporting this cause will potentially help people everywhere as the results of research programs are shared internationally.

Now that the dust has settled after the New Year celebrations and people are going back to work, I am also getting ready for the next and probably final chapter of my adventure. In the coming weeks and months, I will be writing a book and creating a presentation about my walk along the Ming Dynasty Great Wall.

On the more immediate level, I’m concerned with finding a place to live in Oslo and buying a new computer that can churn through all the thousands of pictures I have taken over the last 20 months. Once that is in place, the book and presentation will become my passion and work in progress!

The story about this walk has reached further than I had ever thought. People seem to get very excited when they hear the story, and how I made the decision to follow a more than 20 year old dream.

The following were published, around and just after the end of the walk: One page article in China Daily, a long article in China Radio International, a radio interview taken the same day I came to Beijing only two days after the walk was finished (Click the Listen button under the picture) . In Norway, there was an article in VG, and several radio interviews. In the UK, this article was published.

In addition, the story has picked up interest in Spain, France, Romania, Vietnam, Russia, Afganistan, Japan and a lot in China of course.

I wish you all the very best for 2011!!! Keep checking by this site - I’m not finished yet