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Name: Thomas Harold Rea
Nickname: Captain H, also 'Destructor' (primary kids)
Age: Definitely the elder brother, in spite of appearances!! And not ready to retire...
Lives: After 40 years on the industrial Copperbelt, now residing in the heart of rural Zambia at Chengelo School
Loves: pretty girls [wife, daughters, granddaughters!], all racquet sports; watching good rugby, especially the Ireland team when it wins; riding big BMW's
Tags: Mr Fixit; DIY time permitting; Preacher; try to practice it; Metal Man; Diplomat
Name: Mary Rea
Nickname: answers to First Mate & Mighty Ma (also reputedly 'Mother Nature')
Age: Much lower than Capt H, though recently reached the same decade
Lives: Zebra Lodge at Chengelo to remind us of our lovely home in Zebra Street, Kitwe
Loves: expeditions, people, grandkids, sudoku, horse riding, racquet games & beating Capt H at Table tennis
Tags: action girl; praying; creation; green fingers
Name: Daniel Thomas Rea
Nickname: 00DR
Age: Top Secret
Lives: alongside Matthew whenever possible
Loves: adventures, headtorches, ballet, sunsets, hydroelectric dams, motorbikes, saving women and children, doing DIY in Battersea and pulling weeds in Cambuslang, seeing the world, snow-boarding, kite-surfing [latest love]
Tags: Dan in a tutu [KPMG offices], Dan in a nightie [traditional skiing outfit], Dan the Arab [Halifax airport meeting his girlfriend's family], Dan in a red wig [cool London club with his poor nephews], Dan in goofy goggles [everywhere]
Name: Charles Ernest Rea
Nickname: They see him here, they see him there
Age: Has already lived several lives
Lives: The debate continues: Zambezi hydro, Kansanshi mine, Kitwe, Lusaka, Congo, Harare, occasionally Mwinilunga. On his red BMW, in an ancient landcruiser, in a canoe, now in his new plane.
Loves: his family, rice pudding, encouraging people to live their dreams, adventures, Zambia, people, rural development, actions not words, God
Tags: definition of living by faith, optimism personified
Name: Mike Toyn
Nickname: If I told you I would have to kill you
Age: Like a fine wine; my vintage gets better with the years
Lives: from day to day
Loves: bikes, family, computer, food (in that order; according to Rachel)
Tags: lanky, cyclist, vegetarian, Cumbrian, eggs
Name: Perry Rea Toyn
Nickname: Pezz
Age: 16
Lives: Staveley
Loves: Reading, friends and family, mountain biking, music, sleeping
Tags: Mah-Jongg guru #2
Name: Jay Toyn
Nickname: Jay
Age: 14
Lives: In my parents' house
Loves: generally chilling out, but I also love drawing, playing my bass guitar and hanging out with my friends.
Tags: Emo, Mah-Jongg guru #1, doormouse
Name: Rachel Mary Toyn
Nickname: Depends who you ask
Age: also 30-something and making the most of it
Lives: by the beck
Loves: running around after Jay while he chills out, oh and that she has African family to take her on amazing adventures
Tags: injustice, unfairness, battery farming, war, BNP, folk music, pollution, waste, carnivore, couch potato ...

Name: Sarah Louise Cowling
Nickname:
Age: 23 going on 12
Lives: Mkushi, Zambia
Loves: God, anything purple and eating a good home cooked meal
Tags: Clever, Adventurous, Pretty, Crazy, Blessed, Free, Happy, Hard Working, Intuitive, Girl

Name: Richard Thompson
Nickname: Bwana
Age: 30-something
Lives: Bush Palace next to the Mushiwemba River, Mkushi, Zambia
Loves: sleeping next to a fire, Ndubs, Rumba (Congolese) dancing , playing (beating!!) farmers and sometimes Capt H at squash!
Tags: RumDoodle, Mumpu, "the adventure never ends", Zamsip

Name: Mathew Keshav Lewis
Nickname: Coming soon
Age: Good question
Lives: Outrageously
Loves: Dan
Tags: Coming soon

Name: Sam Alexander Chadwick
Nickname: SBC
Age: 7 days older than Dan
Lives: Hell's Kitchen, New York City
Loves: that he's finally going on holiday
Tags: Photography, adventure, croquet master

 



Before we start the trip, we shall be visiting the Zambezi Rapids Hydro-Electric Scheme, a project for the North West Zambia Development Trust that Dan worked on and has also been raising money to support.
In 2008, Dan and Mike completed a round-the-world motorbike trip and raised GBP 34,000 towards the target of GBP 50,000. To help them reach their target, click here to donate.

North West Zambia Development Trust


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