Following the footsteps

[Superbruce]

Dear Moderator, I hope you don't mind my using your forum to ask for contributions to my current project.I am currently on a world tour of Sydney LA, New York, London and possibly Geneva as a warm-up to following Alexander's trail from Athens to India.I am charging off on this trip half-baked, without the luxury of time to research and pitch the idea to media companies. However, I will be travelling with laptop computer, video and digital cameras. I have managed to get one TV company and a couple of newspapers intestested in broadcasting my adventures.I hope I will be able to distinguish myself from Michael Wood by: travelling alone; completing the trek in one go, in less than 12 months; showing a greater understanding for the man; and not making so many mistakes.I will have a web-site functioning within a fortnight; until then, if anyone has a question that they would like me to address, please use the yahoo e-mail address above.thank you.
Curriculum VitaeRichard Koser
r_koser@yahoo.comRichard has been working for the United Nations too long. He joined when he was 22 and quit for the third time at the age of 30. In between working for different UN agencies, he worked as a journalist in Switzerland and Australia, covering a range of beats including business, travel, sport and UN issues.Most of RichardGÇÖs career has been in Geneva, which is a great place to leave, but he has also worked in Palestine and, since January 2000, for UNICEF in East Timor and Pakistan/Afghanistan. He is now on the trail of Alexander the Great. He will be arriving in Athens on 1 November 2002, and intends to make his way to India via Palestine, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan, laughing at a lot of things he sees on the way: the UN in Macedonia, the Israelis, Palestinians, the UN in Lebanon, Colonel Qaddafi, Saddam, George Bush, the UN in Afghanistan.
You have to laugh. The alternative wonGÇÖt do any good.
Richard enjoyed being UNICEFGÇÖs communications officer in East Timor from January 2000 until August 2002. Helping the kids of East Timor stand up for themselves at a time when the whole country was just learning to walk was a fantastic experience. He also had fun scuba-diving, falling off motorbikes and giving away footballs to kids. However, East Timor is too quiet at the moment.

[John]

Dear Superbruce,At least you could fill a big gap in Michael Wood's documentary if you could get into Iraq and do some filming there, since he was unable to follow Alexander's footsteps into Iraq.Danger? What danger?John

[susa]

Hi Richard!I'd like to ask you a tiny favour: please, please DO laugh a bit for me when you're thru those places. Please? I'd love to laugh at them too. Really.And good luck, of course. I'll check yr site for sure.I'd like to do that myself one of these days....To laugh very much. Like Alexander did laugh, when he's into one of those many things he did best: a fighting.:)susa

[ruthaki]

The trip of a lifetime, a dream trip. And just to think back in the '70's before the doors closed and it got dangerous, I could have gone there. Oh well, I must now live vicariously through those brave ones who attempt it. Good luck, but given the current situation it's not very good timing!

[chris]

Hi RichardGood luck.I was interested to read your somewhat cryptic comments about Michael Wood - can you elaborate?Chris