4400km for Homelessness Awareness | Travels Through a Kingdom

So Shawnee, tell us a little bit about this challenge that you've set yourself because you've been looking for something a bit of a real good challenge that you wanted.

So tell us a bit about the thought process.

Yeah, I suppose the thought process is, I suppose over the past few years, I've gone on some really big adventures.

pushed myself pushed my body but there was always something lacking in those because you know they were kind of they just happened they weren't really planned too much and I really wanted to do something that would have a bit of a social impact as big as possible and homelessness has always been on my mind because the statistics over the past decade and more have been have been increasing increasing it's gone to crisis levels so this year I did have a little bit more time to kind of prepare for something big.

And, you know...

when we're talking about homelessness, you know, usually I'm out in the mountains or out in the countryside and either personally or professionally.

And this time, if I was to bring awareness to the homelessness crisis, you know, it makes sense to do something in the city where it's at its worst, i.e. Dublin.

It's not my environment of... you know, that I would choose.

Like, I'm not a city person.

I'm quite the opposite.

But that's where we can see it.

That's where we walk past it on a daily basis.

That's where it's most critical, you know, in any of the cities, really, but in particular Dublin.

So I suppose the most logical challenge was to do it right there, in the centre of Dublin, the capital, and set myself a big challenge.

And obviously it's got, you know, it's got two sides to it.

It's first the physical and mental and psychological challenge of actually doing something that massive.

It's going to be 4,400 streets.

It's going to be over 2,000 kilometres.

It's going to be in congested area with traffic, with people, with traffic.

all the inverted commas dangers that you would associate with a city, which is complete opposite to what I'm used to being on the mountains or being out in the countryside.

And then, you know, I have added a significant difficulty, which is, you know, I want to, you know, bring awareness to what's happening to what people are experiencing on the streets on a permanent basis.

Like, I mean, the statistics don't lie.

So I've added in the, the the challenge of sleeping rough myself during that challenge so you know it's a significant physical uh challenge or feat whatever you want to call it but sleeping rough is going to just make it you know significantly more difficult uh which which you know i i i am open to and you know that's the reason why i'm doing it i would feel almost If I did it and jumped into hotels or friends' houses, I would feel like, you know, I'm only half doing it.

So, and with most of my challenges, you know, I'm not looking for comfort.

I'm looking to do it the easiest way.

cheapest inverted commas way possible to show people also that you can get out there and do some really cool stuff without having the funds to do it you know so that's basically

So Shawnee, tell us a little bit about this challenge that you've set yourself because you've been looking for something a bit of a real good challenge that you wanted.

So tell us a bit about the thought process.

Yeah, I suppose the thought process is, I suppose over the past few years, I've gone on some really big adventures.

pushed myself pushed my body but there was always something lacking in those because you know they were kind of they just happened they weren't really planned too much and I really wanted to do something that would have a bit of a social impact as big as possible and homelessness has always been on my mind because the statistics over the past decade and more have been have been increasing increasing it's gone to crisis levels so this year I did have a little bit more time to kind of prepare for something big.

And, you know...

when we're talking about homelessness, you know, usually I'm out in the mountains or out in the countryside and either personally or professionally.

And this time, if I was to bring awareness to the homelessness crisis, you know, it makes sense to do something in the city where it's at its worst, i.e. Dublin.

It's not my environment of... you know, that I would choose.

Like, I'm not a city person.

I'm quite the opposite.

But that's where we can see it.

That's where we walk past it on a daily basis.

That's where it's most critical, you know, in any of the cities, really, but in particular Dublin.

So I suppose the most logical challenge was to do it right there, in the centre of Dublin, the capital, and set myself a big challenge.

And obviously it's got, you know, it's got two sides to it.

It's first the physical and mental and psychological challenge of actually doing something that massive.

It's going to be 4,400 streets.

It's going to be over 2,000 kilometres.

It's going to be in congested area with traffic, with people, with traffic.

all the inverted commas dangers that you would associate with a city, which is complete opposite to what I'm used to being on the mountains or being out in the countryside.

And then, you know, I have added a significant difficulty, which is, you know, I want to, you know, bring awareness to what's happening to what people are experiencing on the streets on a permanent basis.

Like, I mean, the statistics don't lie.

So I've added in the, the the challenge of sleeping rough myself during that challenge so you know it's a significant physical uh challenge or feat whatever you want to call it but sleeping rough is going to just make it you know significantly more difficult uh which which you know i i i am open to and you know that's the reason why i'm doing it i would feel almost If I did it and jumped into hotels or friends' houses, I would feel like, you know, I'm only half doing it.

So, and with most of my challenges, you know, I'm not looking for comfort.

I'm looking to do it the easiest way.

cheapest inverted commas way possible to show people also that you can get out there and do some really cool stuff without having the funds to do it you know so that's basically