Finished July 15, 2009

Well I suppose it’s time I got off my lazy butt and officially updated this blog to let everyone know that at roughly 3:30 PM on July 10th I (and my father!) took the last few steps and positioned ourselves squarely at the northeastern-most edge of the British mainland. I have officially walked from the [...]

Helmsdale July 7, 2009

The days since I last updated have taken me through a lot of different terrain. I’ve followed another long distance trail from Fort William up past Loch Ness and finally to Inverness. From there it’s been mostly road walking to where I am now, on the northeast coast of Scotland. I am about 55 miles [...]

Fort William June 30, 2009

Scotland sucks, and I say that in the same way one might say “Vampires suck.” Most of the insects up here, it seems, live for the sole purpose of tracking me down and drinking my blood, or at least biting me. And there are a lot of insects. The bar I had dinner in last [...]

Glasgow June 24, 2009

Glasgow is the first of the great Scottish cities to fall to my relentless footsteps. After my last post (wherein I neglected to mention that although I was sitting in a hotel, I wasn’t actually STAYING in the hotel) the weather took a significant turn for the better, and it’s been sunny and relatively cloudless [...]

Somewhere in Scotland June 21, 2009

As you probably gathered from my last post, I’ve got my camping gear again. This is because I met up with my parents near Penrith and spent two days staying at Hornby Hall, a very big mansion built around 1574, if my memory is right. It apparently has a ghost, although I didn’t experience any [...]

Scotland! June 20, 2009

At around 3 PM this afternoon I entered Scotland, which as far as I can tell is a lawless land where anything goes. It is, apparently, totally fine for you to camp just about wherever you want, which I think is pretty neat. At least, that’s how I understand it, and hopefully nobody tries to [...]

Burnley, destination unknown June 15, 2009

Well I’m in Burnley right now, having given up on the Pennine Way after roughly two days. The Pennines are absolutely beautiful – rugged, isolated, craggy – and the weather was agreeable for the most part, but the path meandered and dipped and climbed and it was starting to drive me crazy. Progress was slow, [...]

Leek… sort of. June 10, 2009

This is just a quick update, mainly to inform you that I uploaded a few more pictures to the first link on the pictures page, and also gave them captions. I spent a little while trying to summarize the past few days here, but I keep launching into lengthy explanations and I want to keep [...]

Wolverhampton June 8, 2009

I put myself in a sort of difficult situation at the end of my last post. If you read it, you’ve probably spent the last several days wondering if I did in fact die trying to make it to Chipping Campden. Fortunately, that is not the case. However, I’m sorry to say that I didn’t [...]

Cheltenham June 4, 2009

Well the library closes in five minutes so I’ve got to be fast. For the past three days I’ve been walking the Cotswold Way and dealing with its rather infuriating obsession with going to the tops of hills and walking around them. Of course, the ONLY section of the way for which I didn’t own [...]