Brydie and Sharon
Sharon, 52, a cleaner, and Brydie, 25, a snowboard instructor, are a mother and daughter team learning to embrace the challenges of travel and dyslexia.
Why did you want to take part in Race Across the World?
Our best strategy, our relationship, because we’re really tight.
Sharon: It just looks amazing, it looks fun. I watched it with my family at home, and Brydie was in Canada at the time and then we went out to visit and we watched it together. She just looked at me and I looked at her and we thought “we could do this” and so that’s exactly how it happened.
Have you got a strategy going into the race?
Brydie: Not really. We’re winging it.
Sharon: The only thing we’re doing is we’re sharing everything as mum and daughter. So, one’s got shampoo, one's got conditioner, you know, to lighten the load.
Brydie: I think that’s our best strategy, our relationship, because we’re really tight.
How have you prepared for the trip?
Sharon: The reason we haven’t is because honestly, we knew we’d have no idea what it would actually be like on our race.
Brydie: And you don’t want to get disappointed if you have done the research and you don’t get to go to certain places. Like we know a lot about Canada as I’ve spent a lot of time there and say we hadn’t gone to Niagara Falls when mum visited, then I know that would have really hurt her because she really wanted to see it.
So, I’m almost glad we didn’t do any research on Japan, because we don’t know anything about it, so nothing is going to be upsetting if we don’t get to experience something we may have wanted to.
