Nicole's Diary: Running the World... Losing Our Marbles
Two years after having linked Ushuaia (Argentina) to Fairbanks (Alaska) while covering more than 24,000 kilometers, with him running and her at the handlebars of a motorcycle, Serge and Nicole Roetheli of Valais (Switzerland) took to the road again in February 2000 for a world tour lasting more than five years. At the end of their crazy adventure, they had traveled some dizzying distances40,912 kilometers (25,422 miles)which is the equivalent of nearly a thousand marathons, sixty-three months of running, six continents traversed. And how many glances exchanged? Nicole, during this whole time of adventure deux, has recorded her impressions, her outrages when confronted with injustices and inequalities, her joys of sharing, her times of sadness, and her happiness of living a different way. Nicoles Diary includes fascinating journal entries and stories of children they met in jails, orphanages they visited, poverty and snakes they encountered, malaria that they survived, broken bones, and the treacherous weather along the way. In undertaking this run their goal was always to make progress in the search for humanityin all of mankind.
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Nicole's Diary: Running the World... Losing Our Marbles
Two years after having linked Ushuaia (Argentina) to Fairbanks (Alaska) while covering more than 24,000 kilometers, with him running and her at the handlebars of a motorcycle, Serge and Nicole Roetheli of Valais (Switzerland) took to the road again in February 2000 for a world tour lasting more than five years. At the end of their crazy adventure, they had traveled some dizzying distances40,912 kilometers (25,422 miles)which is the equivalent of nearly a thousand marathons, sixty-three months of running, six continents traversed. And how many glances exchanged? Nicole, during this whole time of adventure deux, has recorded her impressions, her outrages when confronted with injustices and inequalities, her joys of sharing, her times of sadness, and her happiness of living a different way. Nicoles Diary includes fascinating journal entries and stories of children they met in jails, orphanages they visited, poverty and snakes they encountered, malaria that they survived, broken bones, and the treacherous weather along the way. In undertaking this run their goal was always to make progress in the search for humanityin all of mankind.
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Nicole's Diary: Running the World... Losing Our Marbles

Nicole's Diary: Running the World... Losing Our Marbles

by Nicole Roetheli
Nicole's Diary: Running the World... Losing Our Marbles

Nicole's Diary: Running the World... Losing Our Marbles

by Nicole Roetheli

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Overview

Two years after having linked Ushuaia (Argentina) to Fairbanks (Alaska) while covering more than 24,000 kilometers, with him running and her at the handlebars of a motorcycle, Serge and Nicole Roetheli of Valais (Switzerland) took to the road again in February 2000 for a world tour lasting more than five years. At the end of their crazy adventure, they had traveled some dizzying distances40,912 kilometers (25,422 miles)which is the equivalent of nearly a thousand marathons, sixty-three months of running, six continents traversed. And how many glances exchanged? Nicole, during this whole time of adventure deux, has recorded her impressions, her outrages when confronted with injustices and inequalities, her joys of sharing, her times of sadness, and her happiness of living a different way. Nicoles Diary includes fascinating journal entries and stories of children they met in jails, orphanages they visited, poverty and snakes they encountered, malaria that they survived, broken bones, and the treacherous weather along the way. In undertaking this run their goal was always to make progress in the search for humanityin all of mankind.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780985532819
Publisher: Dunham Books
Publication date: 06/04/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 7 MB
Age Range: 3 Years

About the Author

Nicole Roetheli is a courageous woman who accompanied her husband as they traveled the world together. She was his coach, his crew support, his doctor and his friend as she followed him on her Yamaha motorcycle towing a small trailer, as he ran through 37 countries.

Table of Contents

A Note from the Translators vii

Foreword Jean-Bernard Repond ix

Chapter 1 The Departure 1

Chapter 2 West Africa 6

Chapter 3 South Africa and Madagascar 70

Chapter 4 The Middle East 104

Chapter 5 Asia 123

Chapter 6 Oceania 168

Chapter 7 South America 204

Chapter 8 North America 232

Chapter 9 Europe 249

Epilogue 270

About the Authors 272

About the Translators 273

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