The final showdown...
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Dominic Gill
Jul 17, 2008, 5:10:10 PM7/17/08
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My Dear friends
Well, this is it, it really is!! The last email you will recieve from me before I arrive at the tip of this fine continent on Achilles the bicycle, proudly wearing his battle scars.
I continue to ask each and every one of you for your help with raising a few more pennies for Hope and Homes for Children (accessable from www.takeaseat.org), and I sincerely hope that you can enjoy my final swath of photos as I cycle out of Argentina, back into Chile and then once again into Argentina. I have not written much for you this time, very little in fact, I will let the images tell a little of my story. I have, however left you with a poem, that I think explains some of the difficulties well enough!!
Sending my love to you all
Dominic
From Bad to Worse
Six wands of steely sullen sun
With the chilly fog and grassy spines of ice they fight
To free my frozen chain, and let my wheels run
And release Achilles from his frosty carapace, take flight
Though ´flight´is not perhaps a word to loan to me
Suggesting freedom, soaring, gliding fancy free
Instead we crunch and grate on shards of shattered earth
While the weather Gods look on and fall about in mirth
When all but glimmers of my hope is lost
The sun`s steely wands shine fierce, to rid the earth of cold
Water girgles in hidden passages of frost
And birdsong grows with color bright and bold
Achilles shakes off his frigid coat of winter
The ice on which we ride begins to squelch not splinter
But as quickly as he changes clothes, shaking off the brittle crud
He`s entombed a new, but this time it is mud.....
D O M i N i C G i L L
"One Tandem, One Camera, Twenty Thousand Miles of Possibilities..."
WWW.TAKEASEAT.ORG
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Well, this is it, it really is!! The last email you will recieve from me before I arrive at the tip of this fine continent on Achilles the bicycle, proudly wearing his battle scars.
I continue to ask each and every one of you for your help with raising a few more pennies for Hope and Homes for Children (accessable from www.takeaseat.org), and I sincerely hope that you can enjoy my final swath of photos as I cycle out of Argentina, back into Chile and then once again into Argentina. I have not written much for you this time, very little in fact, I will let the images tell a little of my story. I have, however left you with a poem, that I think explains some of the difficulties well enough!!
Sending my love to you all
Dominic
From Bad to Worse
Six wands of steely sullen sun
With the chilly fog and grassy spines of ice they fight
To free my frozen chain, and let my wheels run
And release Achilles from his frosty carapace, take flight
Though ´flight´is not perhaps a word to loan to me
Suggesting freedom, soaring, gliding fancy free
Instead we crunch and grate on shards of shattered earth
While the weather Gods look on and fall about in mirth
When all but glimmers of my hope is lost
The sun`s steely wands shine fierce, to rid the earth of cold
Water girgles in hidden passages of frost
And birdsong grows with color bright and bold
Achilles shakes off his frigid coat of winter
The ice on which we ride begins to squelch not splinter
But as quickly as he changes clothes, shaking off the brittle crud
He`s entombed a new, but this time it is mud.....
D O M i N i C G i L L
"One Tandem, One Camera, Twenty Thousand Miles of Possibilities..."
WWW.TAKEASEAT.ORG
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