Rachel Jones
A challenge I overcame: Cycling from Panama to
Nicaragua in 8 days, and surviving!!
A dream for my future: Happy, Healthy family
A hope for the global community: Education, Empowerment,
Equality
Rachel is a gorgeous and multi-talented
Welsh lass, who is absolutely hilarious and also, as I discovered during this
trip, has the most beautiful singing voice.
Formidably intelligent, Rachel specializes in computer programming and
as well as being bilingual in Welsh-Gaelic and English also speaks Italian
after living in Italy and Spanish and Portuguese (and I have a feeling I’m
missing out some other languages here?!).
Rachel and I originally met on one of
Macmillan Cancer Support’s fundraising bike rides in Central America, where weboth cycled an intense 600km over 8 days (“8-days!” Rachel explained vigorously
for Thiago and friend that night in Lapa, with 8 fingers extended in emphasis,
“8 days!”), from Panama to Granada in Nicaragua in 2010, from where I carried
on north to Mexico. That trip was an
incredible and really bonding experience for us. Since then we’ve also cycle-camped through
Wales as a celebration of Rachel’s 30th, and had plenty a night out
dancing back in London when we’ve both been based there.
Rachel’s computing skills had her working
for the London Olympic Games in 2012 and she was kind enough to gift me and
another good friend Tamara a pair of tickets to the athletics last summer –
ace!!
Rachel, thanks for a fantastic few days and
for so may tear-inducing laughs, you’re brilliant! I hope you’ve been enjoying the rest of your
trip and I’ll look forward to catching up again and hearing all about your
adventures back on UK soil!
Big love
:-)
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