The Road Goes Ever On

The Road Goes Ever On
Originally uploaded by redwelly.

Give or take a few days, it has now been one single, rounded, whole year since I first posted on this blog.

Over the course of the year I seem to have significantly toned down the flowery prose, and slackened off from the flowery pictures too. I have not monitored the traffic too closely, but seem to get a fairly steady flow of about 30 hits per week. And I know who you are... mostly.

This photo was from the beginning of my return trip, unicycling back across Exmoor from Lee Abbey to Bath. The ride down on Monday was a great strain, and at 107 miles, is also my longest one-day-ride... with devastatingly frequent hills towards the end.

It inspired my first ever hitch-hiking experience, on concluding that I just couldn't trudge any further up this last(ish) hill into Lynton. A very nice man with a large estate car took me the half mile or so up to Lynton, and all ended well.

For the return trip I decided not to foolishly try to avoid the coastal hills, at the expense of all the other inland hills, so I went via Porlock and Minehead. It seemed vastly easier, and turned out to be only 93 miles too.

In between silly unicycle rides, I had a very pleasant couple of days visiting Tim, seeing Lee Abbey people/places and doing a spot of Celebrity Worship Leader Ogling with Stuart Townend.

Public Notice: There should be no sudden jolts, but you'd better fasten your seatbelts just in case. I have, at long last, got around to registering my own web hosting. Thus I can now install a 'proper' WordPress blogging solution website. For now at least, you shouldn't feel a thing...