Well, I've been home for a couple of weeks now, and I guess you could say I'm no longer homeless.  I've moved into a house in Willoughby (a Sydney suburb) with a couple of friends.  It's great to be no longer living in my van.  If only the real homeless had such a choice.

If anyone still wants to contribute to the homeless, I am still accepting pledges on my Sponsor Mark page.  I received pledges for nearly $8,000 over the last few weeks. I'm still waiting on about $2,000 to come in before I can send the money off to Mission Australia, so if you're one of those people, please send your money off very soon.

In my guestbook there's a message from a fellow called John Henzell, who is doing a similar kind of thing to me, only much harder.  He's walked from sea level to the top of the the highest mountains in Europe, South America and New Zealand, and is tackling Australia (Kosciusko) this September.  I proposed that I join him on his final day to the summit, thereby finishing my own trek and seeing the completion of two epic journeys in one day. John writes very engagingly - check out his Sea to Summit web page.  If we do indeed do that together, I'll put an update about it here.

I have added a couple of photos to my photo collection.  These were taken by the Sydney Morning Herald photographer at the top of Mount Crackenback.

For all those people who have wondered about the "emotional turmoil" that I referred to on the walk (and that made me return to Sydney as fast as possible on Sunday evening) was indeed a matter of the heart. Thankfully, it's all resolved now, and my emotional roller coaster ride is over (for the moment, anyway).

I'm still planning to write a sort of epilogue/summary to this web site, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Maybe I never will.

That's all for now,

Mark.