Salamander - Tim - Why am I doing ARC 2022?

The last few years haven't exactly been the best. Amongst all the good stuff I have lost my father and mother, neither as a result of COVID but complicated by it.

Exactly the same time my mother passed we chose to move house. Moving from a house where all the children had grown up but had now fled the nest.

My mother had pancreatic cancer, so we knew she had limited time. This allowed me the luxury of being able to talk to her at length about her life and the things she was taking with her. It became abundantly clear that "stuff" was totally unimportant and that experiences were everything. After she passed I vowed to create as many "peak experiences" as I could.

A peak experience can be described as something that you set about doing on purpose and might be as simple as having tea with an aunt and uncle (that's another story) or doing something as epic as sailing the Atlantic.

It's something I've dreamed of doing for many years and having retired at 60 I'm well placed to do it now.

It's a great way of exorcising all the emotional trauma of the last couple of years.

Above all though it's plain good fun!!

Tim - Salamander Tour Manager and Guest Social Media Editor


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