Wednesday, 16 June 2004

Personal

Sections and gaps

Another common question about my coastwalk is, Are you doing it in order?. By which the enquirer means to know if each walk picks up where the previous one left off.

My answer used to be, "as much as I can", and this year I'd intended on closing as many gaps as possible, but I've since changed my mind.

When I picked up the path round The Wash earlier in the year - a path I'd left four years previously - I noticed an unexpected benefit of fragmenting the walk. My mind rewound to February 2000 and I almost subconsciously started to review the intervening time. Looking back's not something I do very often, and captured in the framework of a walk it turned out to be a productive exercise.

That's not to say I'll not close the gaps I'd intended this year, but I've been pleased to uncover lost pieces of my past, hidden at the incomplete ends of a fragmented coastwalk.

Posted by pab at 22:20 | Comments will be back later in the year. Please email me instead!