TENBY adventurer Rosie Swale Pope is continuing to make her way across Canada as she heads home on her epic journey around the world by foot. Sixty-year-old Rosie, who has been walking and running her way around the globe, left home in October 2003 to raise awareness of cancer after she lost her husband Clive to prostate cancer over four years ago.

Pulling her custom-made cart, she arrived in Estevan, Saskatchewan, in the middle of January, and was given a complimentary room at the Days Inn hotel before she departed the next day for Portal, North Dakota, where she intended to enter the United States. She was heading for Minneapolis and the eastern US seaboard, before re-entering Canada to tour the Maritimes and eventually departing for Greenland and Iceland.

Rosie was given a police escort when she arrived in Estevan and was unphased by the wind-chill conditions that measured minus 35 C.

She was expected to meet the Mayor of Estevan and enjoy a manicure and pedicure before hitting the road again. She was also going to donate money raised in Saskatchewan on an ad hoc basis and donations which she had picked up on her trek to local hospital causes.

"I'm healthy and I have some strength. It's just a little run around the world you know," she told a reporter at the Estevan Mercury.

A copy of the article was sent to us by Mrs. Margaret Edwards, of Whitehill, Cresselly, who had received it from a family friend in Estevan.