To do list
- Learn knots.
- Get fit
- Walk Ridgeway (85 miles) in two days
- Walk Ridgeway in one day
- Run Marathon
- Learn to light fire by friction – rubbing sticks together
- Learn about solar power and choose the best solar panels to take – and pay for them somehow.
- Learn expedition first aid.
- Learn about satellite communications and then decide whether to take a satellite phone or a satellite modem.
- Get really very good at navigation.
- Learn to fish.
- Learn Spanish.
- Write business plan and present it to the bank in such a way as to convince them that this is a good idea.
- Keep building the web site
- Recruit more writers.
- Encourage current writers to write more.
- Write reviews of places.
- Start looking into creating revenue through selling advertising space on the web site once we have sufficient content.
- Earn enough money to live off.
- Write a book.
- Research history and background of Ecuador and try to gain an understanding of the various pressures there are on the rainforest – need of the people to generate income through the wealth of natural resources oil / wood / minerals etc.
- Investigate possibility of importing solar panels from China for sale through the web site.
- Acquire the appropriate kit for travel into the rainforest – test it to see if it works and learn how to fix it if it breaks.
- Try to steer press interest in such a direction as to get behind Mission Impossible and so increase our chances of making a significant impact.
- Swot up on the flora and fauna and edibility thereof before leaving.
- Find some form of income
- figure out how to get from Brazil to Ecuador
- try hard to ignore nagging doubt that this whole plan is a bad idea
Jam
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