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I wanted to do something special in 2013 in Peter's memory as it would have been our 25th Wedding Anniversary so I thought what better way than to help Beating Bowel Cancer once more.

Trek Jordan will be very different to Trek Peru, no altitude issues for starters! It will be a much larger trek (ie 100 people taking part!) and the sleeping arrangements will be in large Bedouin tents. I can't believe I'm going to be camping again! I'm back in training as the trek is for 5 days, walking from the Dead Sea to Petra. As he was such a wonderful person, what better way to remember Peter than to visit one of the other Wonders of the World!

This trek will also be in memory of Ali, my inspirational tentmate of Trek Peru. Ali was diagnosed with bowel cancer when she was only 22 but I have never met someone so cheerful and full of life in the face of such adversity. Her laugh could lift the deepest gloom! She loved animals (I couldn't resist posting the photo of her with the Peruvian ladies and their lambs in Cuzco) but frightened me witless when she approached grazing llamas in Macchu Picchu. When we were in awe just looking at the ruins, only Ali spied the hiding chincilla in the rocks. I feel incredibly privileged to have known such a lovely person who died so young in December, aged just 32.

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