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Atacama Crossing (2025) blog posts from Marco Grobbelaar

23 March 2025 04:21 am (GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria

Howzit fellow followers

Only 7 days to go! Can you feel it?

Writing to you from Sao Paulo, Brazil. With a "cozy" 8h layover before my flight to Santiago, Chile. Eish, almost there!

I would like to give a special shoutout to the IBLTS management team in Beira Mozambique, who pleasantly surprized me on Friday before I left office: It started off with a "...we've got a conflict in the workplace issue that needs to be addressed" (smart move, as it was a sensitive topic from the week before), to which my thinking out loud reply was that I'm about to head off to the airport and that it sounded like a "next month" problem to be resolved. They assured me it cannot wait:

"From Managing Us to Managing the Atacama!" & "Marco's Desert Crossing: 250km of No Meetings, No Emails".

Got to love their support and initiative. A sincere, heartfelt thank you: Esse, Abdul, Karabo, Edgar, Rui, Pamela, Afonso and Jussub. You are true legends and a true honor for me to work with you all. Don't tell my wife, but I think you guys might actually be my biggest supporters for this race ;) (just joking. Love you Jinny babes and thanks for allowing me to get onto that flight, hehe)

The giftSpeechless speechJinny babes farewell

Comments: Total (5) comments

Karabo Nkabinde

Posted On: 23 Mar 2025 08:26 am

Good luck Marcolini 🙌🙌🙌 We’re all behind you and wishing you the best!! Have a blast Mnr 🕺💪

Abdul Mussa

Posted On: 23 Mar 2025 08:20 am

GOOD LUCK Just relax and do your best You will be great

Eduardo Grobbelarovski

Posted On: 23 Mar 2025 08:10 am

Love it! Best of luck Marcolini. Piece of cake 😁 You’ve got this 💪🏼🙌

Erwin Von Sellner

Posted On: 23 Mar 2025 06:51 am

You got this Marco! I am looking forward to hearing about all the pit stops along the way! NB! Don't forget the white gold!

Albatros Grobbelarovski

Posted On: 23 Mar 2025 05:57 am

Beautiful! We are with you every step of the way. Can you feel the love?
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