A Land's End to John O'Groats Charity Walk

After months of planning the day is finally here, we’re off on our epic adventure. I’m not really sure what to expect. Having done a long distance path before I am certainly more apprehensive about what’s to come than Carlie is. We are both excited but my excitement is a bit more reserved than hers. Still there is no more we can do than walk, walk and walk. Even though we’ve been preparing for this for so long, there have been, of course, some elements we’ve neglected (buying a decent guide for the South West Coastal Path for one!) so our last day in Cardiff was a mad panic to get everything ready in time.

Our packs are heavier than I would have liked, but we’ve packed and re-packed and really got rid of as much excess as we can, I’m sure with time we’ll find what we need and don’t need and will be able to shed some weight.

Later today we board the train to Penzance, then a short bus ride will get us to our start point down in Land’s End, with luck some 70+ days later, we will arrive at the most northern point of Scotland. Wish us luck, especially with the weather. 

With only days to go we are finalising the route and packing and buying our last bits and bobs for the walk. We now have all the guide books for relevant sections for all the way. Sat here in Cardiff with the sun shining the prospect of walking for just over two months with no cares apart from getting to the end seems great. However the reality may well not be so great, what with the Met office telling us we’ve ‘had the best of the summer’! We’ve got plenty of warm kit and waterproofing everything – prepare for the worst and anything else is a bonus. I hope those of you who are checking this regularly enjoy our photos, blogs and route pages, we will try to update them as much as we can. Thank you all once again for all your help with the sponsorship, if you know anyone who’s still not sponsored us then please badger them into giving!

I’m sure I’ll write another entry before we head down on Monday to start our epic adventure. For now I must get back onto planning the route and packing.