Words on the shampoo bottle or one’s that your mother drilled into you.  This is the email I got after my last post:

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Not enough!!  Are you doing this alone or with others?  Insufficient info.

How will we know if you are safe?

Love, Mom

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I’m doing this on my own, with loads of support and check-in spots along the way with family and friends who will all be too happy to report on my safety and progress. I’m totally sure that diet tips and weather reports will be following. But I will dig up that photo of mom on my motorcycle with her purse hanging odd the handlebars…….jusy sayin’…..