As far as the cost to the Malaysians, I
must offer a quote from Sara Teasdale:
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.
Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID
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ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Sites Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008
9:57 AM To: ridecamp Subject: [RC] Expenses
Reading Stephs wonderful account of
the Malaysian Team of 40 coming to New Mexico, i got to thinking of just what
this would cost, so i checked out the airfares from Yahoo Travelosity.
They listed no first class and all
prices are coach.
The high was $19,073 and the low was
$8366 w/ a medium price of $13,791.50.
40 people @
$13,791.50
548,780
Rental cars for 40 at 4 to a car
$500 per car X 10 5,000
Gas
500
Leasing of 6
horses @
$3000 18,000
Hotels and
Food 10,000
Entry Fees for 6 horses @
$200 1,200
Miscellaneous
expenses
5,000
The Kings Personal
expenses
10,000
$588,480
To me thats a whole lot of money to
get 1 Horse/Riders COC. To me to spend this much money and show up and
some never even ride their horses before the ride makes no sense.
Steph, I believe you when you
say that they are kind and gracious and never complain. They seem to be
very wondeful people with a great amount of interest in Endurance and the
hosting of the WEC and i wish them great success in their home country.
I guess what i am trying to say is
that with spending that much money i would have expected more. But thats
just me. I hope that when the next attempt to get a Team qualified
wherever it is in the world that if that much money is spent they have better
results and pick and choose and ride those horses before the event.
I mean this sincerely. ts
