Where?
From the southern-most tip of Sri Lanka, Dondra Lighthouse, north through rice fields, mountains and tea plantations, onward north through forests and ruins, north past stupas and temples, past war-torn, shelled-out buildings and the remnants of tanks, north and further north until my feet can take me north no more, until I touch the waters off Point Pedro, the last piece of Sri Lanka extending into the sea. That's as much of a road-map as I have right now.
How?
The goal is to walk all of it, self-supported, with the certainty that the Universe abhors a vacuum and that all my apprehensions will dissolve on the road, on step at a time.
Why?
After 30 years of civil war and the laying of innumerable landmines, Sri Lanka is home to more than 160,000 amputees, many of whom, mostly in the North, too poor and too isolated, still await prosthetic limbs. Disabled and neglected, their prospects are bleak. My hope is to raise funds for those in need of prosthetic limbs and mobility devices, walking to enable others to walk themselves.
