Monday, Dec 23, 2013 at 20:19
Chris, I don't have you on the donations list
http://www.canningwalker.com/walk-with-a-cause/walk-4-wheels?showall=&start=1
I was pretty thorough about noting everyone's contribution to the quadriplegics organisation I was walking for. Please refresh my memory of your donation. I do apologies for this omission.
If you feel I misrepresented, please email me your account details and I will refund you out of my own bank account. I would not want you to feel cheated into donating money to a charity organisation I represented.
I have no problem with you question the definition of my walk. When I gather information about other peoples efforts I have to work out what category to put them into. At the moment I do this by listing them as using 'Supply Drops' or 'Support Vehicles' or 'Completely Unsupported'. So far this is the best way I have found to group a wide variety of personal achievements each with their own definition of their rules.
My own rule, i.e. never stepping foot into a vehicle at any time between Billiluna and
Wiluna was so powerful that I was completely incapable of climbing into a vehicle to fetch something a traveller aske me to get, even though it was stationary. I found myself bumping up against a mental barrier that may as
well have been physical. In Durba Springs the Rangers invited me on my day off to come out to the burns where they were doing a bush turkey barbecue Aboriginal style. As much as I wanted to go, I could not accept the invitation. They asked why and I said because it was against the rules. They asked me whose rules and I replied, my own. Made no sense to them, but those are the rules I walked the
Canning Stock Route with.
Some partly drive and still claim walking the entire CSR. Some use supply drops and call it unsupported. Others plan to walk it calling their walk unassisted, but they have two drivers and two vehicles with them. We all have our own rules. I lay
mine out clearly on my website, noting exactly how I did it. I do that the best I can with others achievements. The reader may judge according to his own perspective, or the reader might acknowledge the achievement for what it was.
Regarding donating: I have done voluntary work in crisis situations, the longest and most horrific stint was in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide aftermath. I saw how money was squandered and abused I lost my naivety in those two months. I am careful with whom I now make donations.
However, it is my belief that if you are unable to give, your time or your money, with a completely open and loving heart, don't.
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