More Miles, Less Cancer

My Feature story, More Miles, Less Cancer, is about Lydie Jessin's view about her around the world trip to raise cancer awareness. In 2006 we decided it was time to keep the promise we had made to liam, and travel around the world. After 2 years of preparation we sold our house and bought a 30 ft. motor home. our journey started in 2008, with a complete tour of north america, then headed south to every country in central america and south america except venezuela. After 12 months and 40,000 miles we sold the RV in paraguay and went backpacking in south africa where we cautiously petted lion. After a 15 hour flight to hong kong we backpacked all over china, where we had constant diarrhea for over a month due to eating china's wonderful variety of food, ranging from slugs on a stick to ox testicles. This story really gives the reader an image to picture while reading it, and shows the life you experience while around the world.

-CaptainCoochie