Beating The Crowds On The Westland Highway! Today was as busy as ever on the West Highland Way. Wayne has taken to calling it the ‘Westland Highway’ because of the sheer volume of people…
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Stepping on the Trail & Stepping Back In Time… Not only does the West Highland Way give you access to wander the wild and wonderful highlands of Scotland, but this beautiful and inspiring region…
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Walking Warriors v. Glamping Ramblers… Spending time in nature ‘unplugged’ as it were, is one of the great things we love about long distance hiking. No urgent emails to attend to, no time wasted…
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The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks O’ Loch Lomond… As one of the best known bodies of water in the world largely due to the song ‘The Bonnie, Bonnie, Banks o’ Loch Lomond’, Loch Lomond’s real…
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Use It or Lose It! It was a stiff start to Day 2 – We felt like the Tin Man from the ‘Wizard of Oz’ story – the whole of our bodies in need…
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Our Mini-Adventure In Scotland Begins… The West Highland Way, stretching a distance of 96 miles from Milngavie (on the outskirts of Glasgow) to Fort William, the gateway to Ben Nevis (Great Britain’s highest mountain),…
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Planning & Preparation Is Key… Well, so far, so good. It’s Day 3 already on the John Muir Trail and we’ve not been eaten by bears! Jokes aside, we’re doing just fine. All the…
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Soaking Up The Scenery… We survived our first night sleeping out in the wild – the real wild – without any disturbance from bears! Hopefully we’ll now feel much more at ease with being…
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Stepping Into The Wilderness… Today was a momentous day for both of us. After two and a half years of planning (and almost the same amount of time for Wayne to convince me to…
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A Wedding Anniversary To Remember! I’m sure it’s not often that someone can say they celebrated their wedding anniversary whilst walking the Coast to Coast path. Well this year, we did just that! It…
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Our Summer Of Hiking Has Started! After months of planning, we’re all set to head off on our first long distance hike. Read about our daily adventures hiking and camping the Pennine Way in…
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The Pennine Way – One Day To Go… Whilst Wayne has been busy researching camp sites, memorising routes, working out daily mileage and creating detailed spreadsheets, my biggest concern with our latest hiking adventure…
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A Summer Of Hiking… “Wander here, a whole summer if you can… Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly…