13 hours door to door, probably the longest car journey I have ever been on! It feels like travelling to the end of the world just to get to the start! With good intentions we thought it may take around 11 hours, but the stops to swap drivers every couple of hours meant that we didn’t arrive in Wick until 8 o’clock. We had a pretty good run up here though, every time Mum got behind the wheel we seemed to find the 50mph road works, and when Dad was driving we managed to find the slowest driver in the whole of Scotland!
At our first stop I managed to see a food stop named after the Mahabeer’s little boy Arlo, Wonder if he was named after the service station chain of food establishments? Was nice to see a familiar name though, almost like he is cheering me on.
The Lake District looks beautiful, lots of yellow fields every where with the lack of rain in so long, I must admit it also looks very very hilly! Will report back in a few days time!
Lots of support coming through today, wishing me luck on this epic challenge that I have taken on. Really does mean a lot to know that people are thinking of you. With the good luck coming in, football songs on the radio, it was a pretty good day! Although listening to the football songs didn’t fully make up for the fact that we missed the game. We had catch some of it on Talksport, luckily enough we heard the goal, slight delay as my phone was going mad at the time the corner was given, which meant they knew it was a goal before us. Then as we went further into Scotland, it was almost like the Jocks didn’t want us to hear. Not seeing the football today was only a small sacrifice in the grand scheme of things of what I am setting off to achieve.
Scotland in parts looks stunning! Followed the River Garry for some time today, reminding me of my Uncle, yet another sign that people are looking out for me. So I thought the Lake District was hilly, well I am in for a shock tomorrow. Some of the hills around the east coast are humongous! 13 hours sat down today, probably not the best prep!
So as I write this blog, the hotel has a football team celebrating a cup final win, and a hen do all going on at the same time. They were celebrating every Croatia penalty like it was one of their own scoring! How much sleep will I get tonight I wonder!?
So the bet was, if I managed to get to 50% of my target before I started I would shave my legs. Well, I am currently only £128 away from 50%, if I can get to that total tomorrow then I will do the deed with the veet tomorrow evening when I get to Inverness.
Time to stretch and sleep now, alarm set for 6am! Let’s do this…
I Just Felt Like Cycling 