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RE: [RC] Thank you for the hospitality - Steph Teeter

And these wonderful comments are from a woman who has, in turn, extended her
full hospitality to others. Our youngest son (18) is spending the winter in
Egypt with Maryanne. Experiencing the world beyond Idaho, meeting new
people, shaping his attitude on life. I'm hoping to meet him over there, but
we'll have to see. Actually I've been pestering Maryanne about doing an
Oasis to Oasis multiday ride :)

Thanks to Maryanne, we've see the birth of Endurance in another continent,
with an 'eyes wide open' honesty that we don't get in the UAE ride reports.

So Maryanne - Heart-felt thanks! - back at you!

Steph

-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Maryanne Stroud
Gabbani
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 9:25 AM
To: Ridecamp
Cc: Mohamed Kharma
Subject: [RC] Thank you for the hospitality


I want to thank everyone who has responded to my email regarding my
friend Mohamed Kharma.  I shared your emails  with him and he was
amazed at how many people offered to take him out for a ride or meet
him for dinner or whatever.  I wasn't so amazed because over the years
I've seen time and time again how generous ridecampers are with their
time and energy for global wanderers like myself.

You all may not think that you are anything special, but I would like
to assure you that you are indeed.  Your willingness to share
information and experiences both online and in person are truly
appreciate by people who live in areas where information and experience
are much less easy to come by.  In 2001 when I had the opportunity to
volunteer to help out at the Pan Ams in Vermont, my friends here
assumed that I had some special kind of "wasta" or "connection" as they
call it here.  There was no way that I could just tell them, "No, guys,
these are simply really wonderful people."  Anyone who has tried to
deal with our equestrian federation in Egypt will understand.  The fact
that they do not tell anyone other than a small group that there is a
trainer or that they don't even tell us when there is going to be a
ride is basically taken for granted as normal operating procedure.  I'm
trying to let our riders see that things don't always work that way and
that they don't have to.

I don't want to steal any of Howard's thunder on getting teary-eyed
over the terrific endurance community, but I do want you all to hear it
from another source.  I don't get to meet you all at rides and
conventions, but I meet you online every day. You all have been
inspirational to me when my hope for any sane kind of endurance in
Egypt was at its lowest ebb.  You are indeed a community in the
broadest sense of the word, people with commonality that overrides
differences.  Should any of you find yourselves able to come here, you
should know that we would like to return that sense of community and we
appreciate all that we've been able to learn from your experience.

Thank you again for just being yourselves.

Maryanne
Cairo


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