There are more videos and more information to come here. Sorry for the delay. I need to wrap up a few more media issues before diving in to all the videos and presenting the best ones. Now that the walk is over, I also plan to do some changes on these pages so that the information is easier to find.

Again - a Happy New Year, and may we all stick to a peaceful lifestyle this year!!

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.

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.

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   

Bjørn Sindre and Julie busy cutting a Great Wall section

A week ago, I visited some good friends to the south of Oslo, and we spent an afternoon on a typical Norwegian Christmas activity: baking ginger bread.

Keeping in tradition with what I had spent the last 20 months doing, we managed to create a Great Wall ginger bread house, fully equipped with a ginger bread soldier standing guard, and small jelly men (or were they women?) trying to get over the wall.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and hope you will check back in the new year for more pictures, videos and some posts I have yet to write.

Busy at work, all be it less strenuous than walking.

Julie decorating the walls

Putting the sections together.

Julie showing off the Great Wall ginger bread end product. Notice the soldier standing guard in front. He would probably be better off on the top of the Great Wall.