Glenn was out and about trying to earn money for Croston House Children's Home by walking 900 km in part two of his epic quest to give the children's home the independence it needs by buying land to build a new home.

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www.crostonhousechildrenshomethailand.org/

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Have a look at his latest update.

Hi!        

Hope all is well with you. Unfortunately, 15 days on the road have taken their toll and I had to call it quits early yesterday morning on arrval in Nakhon Sawan city. Fluid has been building up on my ankles over the last couple of days and the only treatment for it is rest and medication and thus the 2009 sponsored walk came to an abrupt halt. As I'm typing this, Ros is on her way down in the truck from Lamphun to pick us and Zimmer 1 up and take us back to the Foundation where I hope a couple of week's rest and another course of pills will see me right to take part in the events down in and around Pattaya in a fortnight's time. 

We had covered some 435 km over 15 days, which is good going given the heat but we were by then some 30 km off the pace and never likely to make that up over the next 14 days with one of us slowing things down. I feel for Nong as I'm sure that he would have made it, all being well, but he will be going down to Pattaya with us, I'm sure. Zimmer 1 had its third puncture of the journey late on Thursday, so maybe it was feeling the strain as well! Having had a little time to reflect on it, not having a back-up vehicle, the weather and making the whole journey so intensive, with no rest days built in, have also played a part in us not being able to succesfully complete the walk this year but that's by the by as it's history now but it was an experience and maybe there's another one in me some time in the future.

Had my first full night's sleep in a fortnight last night after crashing out for a few hours as soon as we checked in to the hotel and feel better for it though the beer I had with dinner in the evening yesterday tasted better when we were on the road, as I felt like I'd done something to earn it! The money kept coming in from roadside donations pretty much right up to the end and Ros will hopefully remember to bring the key to the donation box with her and then we can count it out and I'll let everyone know what the final figure was. 

We may have lost this particular battle but the struggle to raise the funds we need to move on goes on regardless. This is only the third time I've been able access the internet since I've been away and I have noticed that there were a number of responses to my last update from Tak and I'll respond to each of them once this is done and sent out. I'll put this up on the blog site as well later today. Cheers,                                                                                                                                                    

Glenn