Northwoods Training Facility

 

North Woods Training Facility

Presque Isle, WI

11/22/12 to 11/26/12

44 to 40 Days to Africa

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.  This year we are giving thanks for our family, friends, co-workers, acquaintances, and total strangers.  Without all of you, our fundraising and teaching and learning supply drive efforts would not be nearly as fruitful.  We also wouldn’t have the benefit of all your words of encouragement behind us continually driving us forward in our preparations for our journey.  Please keep your stories, insights and support coming our direction in the weeks to come.  We will continue to share our training and other experiences with you related to our charitable adventure.  We are extremely excited to share with you the impact that all of our efforts will have on the people of Tanzania.

For the Thanksgiving holiday, Deb and Greg made a trek to our north woods training facility at Deb’s parent’s home.  Nestled in with our car load of items was a bag full of easy to transport work out items, and we tossed in our weighted Hula Hoop for good measure.  During the day hours, Greg helped his father-in-law cut a new path through the woods.  The work was laborious but enjoyable, and the company was good.  The two worked in tandem cutting trees with their chainsaws, and stacking the wood into burn piles or future firewood piles depending upon variety and condition.  A Thanksgiving night snow fall of approximately three inches made it safe to light the burn piles ablaze on Friday and left the newly created path well groomed.    

In addition to the outdoor work-outs that Greg undertook, there were also evening workouts with Deb in the basement of the family home.  Deb did a great job of designing a workout program that took 45 minutes to an hour to complete and utilized a variety of muscle groups.  Despite several mock whining looks and comments, Greg found the workout to be a definite challenge. 

Meanwhile, in her downtime, Deb read through 83 pages worth of travel advice and other information provided by the travel clinic that is pertinent to our trip.  She learned about the hazards and potential side effects of some of the medications that we will be bringing as well as practical advice pertaining to our time in Tanzania and our brief stop over in Kenya.  We are trying hard to be as prepared as possible in order to successfully climb to the top of the mountain.