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Box 2128
100 Mile House BC
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Canada
Phone 604-985-2118

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Learn about Team 2000's stops around the world and their diverse humanitarian, environmental and social activities in each place. 
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The itinerary below is based on ten-day blocks, with the highlight of each block indicated. Rest days are allowed for in each block. Environmental and humanitarian assistance as well as public appearances are also allowed for. (Details of all of these are yet to be worked out).
Team 2000
(subject to change - naturally)
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Date Location
Feb.26 Training in Canada: wilderness travel and winter survival
Mar.1 Training in Canada:  River travel.  Public speaking
Mar.10 Training in Canada: ski training, humanitarian issues
Mar.20 Training in Canada: wilderness travel training
Apr.1 North Pole
Apr.2 Travel across Arctic Ocean to Canada
Apr.29 Arrive in Northern Canada
May 10 Cycle Dempster Highway into Yukon then N. British Columbia
May 20 Cycle through British Columbia. Canoe into Vancouver
Jun.1 Vancouver presentations, help with clean ups, cycle through British Columbia
Jun.10 Travel across Canada, giving presentations on the journey. Millennium Calgary, Toronto Foundation
Jun.20 Cycle Toronto, Ottawa. Collecting responses to the Millennium Challenge. Toronto Events joint ventured with Festive Earth. Ottawa events joint ventured with Future Trek 2000, National Capital Commission
Jul.1 Canada Day. Meeting with Prime Minister Jean Chretien. Cycle Montreal, Boston. Presentations at Brown and Harvard Universities. Work with MassPIRG on beach cleanup issues.
Jul.10 New York - Kayak trip to Statue of Liberty, environmental project with Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, community gardening project with Green Guerillas, sweatshop and recycling projects with NYPIRG, work with New York Coalition for the Homeless, visit UNESCO. Cycle Washington, meetings with Embassies and Organization of American States, Habitat for Humanity, Centre for Creative Non-Violence, Ice Cream Social with members of Congress on lawn of Congress organized by Congressman Tom Udall.
Jul.20 Cycle Washington - Denver - REST. .
Aug.1 Santa Fe - Nizhoni School for Global Consciousness. Grand Canyon. Los Angeles.
Aug.10 Phoenix, Thomas J. Pappas School for Homeless Children, Phoenix Boys and Girls Clubs. Cycle into Mexico
Aug.20 Cycling in Mexico - cross Guatemalan border Aug. 31
Sep.1 Cycle Guatemala, Costa Rica , Honduras, enter Nicaragua - three day visit with Cell Tech project at the Centro Comunitario Oscar Romero near Nandaime
Sep.10 Nicaragua to Costa Rica - visit with United Nations World Peace University. Cross to Panama.
Sep.20 Panama and sail boat from Panama City to Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Oct.1 Ecuador - cycle Ecuador. Visit Ecotourism project at the Cayambe-Coca Ecological Reserve.
Oct.10 Peru. Lima, helping with slum improvement projects.  Hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Pichu
Oct.20 Bicycle through southern Peru, into northern Chile and northern Argentina
Nov.1 Bicycle across Argentina to Buenos Aires - interviews, school presentations and meetings and continue cycle to Patagonia (Cipolletti)
Nov.10 Events, meetings and presentations in Cipolletti, Neuqen and Baroloche areas of Argentine Patagonia & rest
Nov.20 Begin cycle south through the Patagonian Andes to Punta Arenas, Chile. Last minute packing and details. Dec. 3 fly to Antarctica and begin skiing across Antarctica to the South Pole (26 days)
Dec.29 Arrive at South Pole
Dec.31 Celebrate The Millennium
Jan.10 All team members back home

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