Just Blew in From New Zealand
- Runner: Melissa Moon
- Birthplace: Wellington, New Zealand
- Currently Resides: Wellington, New Zealand
- Language(s): English
- Family:
- Statement: “If I can make a difference and create that awareness then I feel I have done my bit in my lifetime.” – Melissa Moon, 2007
8 hours transit in LA after flying in from New Zealand gave me time to
catch up on my thoughts and test out this new laptop of mine with my first blog.
Fortunately I was able to relax in the Air New Zealand lounge, away from all the hustle and bustle of LA airport. New Zealand is a small place and I couldn’t believe the amount of familiar looking faces I saw in the lounge. Had a lovely conversation with this man and his 11 year old son from Nelson in NZ. He had just been on an amazing adventure following route 66 for 4 weeks by car experiencing real America. He asked if I was off to compete in a Mountain running event overseas, I told him I was about to take myself way outside of my comfort zone and do something I had never done before, to run for 95 days raising awareness for the lack of safe drinking water. He must have been impressed because he left me his business card to forward on all the details about the Blue Planet run. Then he boarded his plane for New Zealand and I continued on my journey to our training camp in Lake Placid in up state New York, this was pretty special as it was the village for the 1980 winter Olympics.
California and Nevada
Its been another frantic 3 weeks in another country, we flew into San Francisco, California and met our drivers for the next 5 weeks who would drive us to our exchange points as we ran across the stat
California and Nevada
Its been another frantic 3 weeks in another country, we flew into San Francisco, California and met our drivers for the next 5 weeks who would drive us to our exchange points as we ran across the stat
China and the Kungfu Show and Japan
On day 54 of the 95 day run around the world we crossed the border from Mongolia into China, it was a smooth crossing and within an a couple of hours we were at our hotel in a part of China still kn
ULAAN BAATAR, BUDDHISM AND NOMADIC LIFE
Mongolia are intertwined with the Mongolian nomadic lifestyle, which is renowned for its hospitality, here life has changed little through the passage of time.
INFECTED EYES, 3 HOURS SLEEP AND DESERT DRIVES
After 3 weeks in Russia I was very ready to cross the border into Mongolia, we had to go through passport control in Russia and I confused them a little as I had to use both my passports, you see I h
THE D’S STORY
Throughout my athletic career I have always applied 5 D’s to any athletic goal I was setting myself, they were
Past through 16 Russian and Siberian cities so far - 7 to go
We are nearing the end of our Russian and Siberian experience, 24 days in this vast country. As we have past through 16 cities so far we have crossed 9 out of the 11 time zones.
Unpaved Russian roads, dormitory style Russian accommodation and long, long drives
Krasnoyarsk
Russian dormitories - Mad driving - Biting horse fly’s and Mosquitoes
After leaving Kazan and the Volga region of Russia, we ventured into the Urals.
KAZAN and the Russian Massage
I was most impressed with this Russian city, it has a population of 1.1 million and is the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, home of the descendents of the nomadic Turkic tribe.
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