I've decided to change my walk from mid July to mid June in the hopes that it will be easier to find someone to cover my responsibilities at work whilst I trudge the trail and day dream.  My daughter's last day of school is the 7th of June so I think we could easily be on our way by the 11th.  Although we have great friends near London, it makes no sense to fly into Heathrow.  Rather, we shall fly into Manchester and take the train.  I'm still working the details but they will no doubt require a train and a bus from Manchester to deliver us to St. Bee's.

At this point, we are 5 months from our adventure and the time has come to buy hiking boots and begin to break them in.  I hate spending money on things just for this walk but I recognize that boots are probably the most important item we'll take and they have to be of high quality or we will suffer and perhaps not finish our quest.  Since not finishing is out of the question, I will spend whatever is needed to protect our little piggies.