Well, I'm in Dryden after the worst week of the trip so far for distance and weather. I was meant to be here a couple of days ago but the temperature dropped from 30ish on my last day off to about 6 for the week, then jumped back up to 25 yesterday giving me just enough time to dry my kit before it rained again today. I don't mind the weather, or the constant hunger and thirst i seem to suffer from. I don't even mind that my feet are oozing a freaky yellow substance allong with blood from wounds that don't have time to heal. But i am starting to get pissed off by the fact that the fundraising total has only shifted by a couple of hundred since i left the UK. I think i'm going to introduce a new rule- anyone using the phraise "oh i wish i could have done that when i was your age" will be nipple crippled until the produce a $50 note a specify which charity they want it to go to. If this comes into effect i will hit my target by next week easily!
I am honestly starting to think this trip is a waist of time though. Whenever i talk to people about what i'm doing i get the feeling that they just ask the questions they ask because it sounds like the right thing to say, and not because they actually care. Also, as soon as i mention the words "i'm walking across Canada" the focus instantly shifts from the why onto the what. These people will never understand exactly what a trip like this requires and haven't a hope in hell of understanding the motivation behind it, no matter what i say. Words don't really explain fully what it was like on those days in BC when i woke up to find my boots had frozen in -21 degrees, and having to scrape off a half inch layer of ice from the outside of my tent by hand before i could pack away. Or those days on the prairies when it was +30 and i only had a half litre of water left to last the 15 miles to the next water source. Or even, the days like the last 5 i've had in the pissing rain in the middle of nowhere walking on bleeding feet. But like i said, I don't mind about any of that as i put myself in this possition. But i put myslef here for a reason, and that reason is currently in Scotland under constant watch to make sure she doesn't have another fall that could prove fatal, or choke on her food because she's losing the ability to swallow..... and you know what- they wont understand that either.
My motivation for this post, however, is neither to offend readers nor to make my circumstances seem unique. It is mearly a cry for donations, nothing more. This whole trip depends on the generosity of complete strangers- something to which i never paid much attention until recently. So please, go to www.justgiving.com/samthomas2 and give whatever you can, and then force others to do the same!!