Day 28: push on and get it done

Day 28:

Day 28: now we're getting to the business end of this walk. Today I walked from near Kinross to Dunkeld via Perth and Almondbank entirely via national cycle routes, some of which were great, some of which were brown trousers time (I will detail this in my book or if you are going to replicate this route sooner, contact me and I'll try and help). Today's mileage was about 32 in 10 hours 20, good going, I'm happy with the effort. I'm even happier that I have a place to stay tonight and I don't have to sleep rough or in the soaking wet its been raining all day woods. Sarah managed to find me a cheap hotel room in Blairgowrie 10 miles out of Dunkeld; everywhere else was booked due to some damned Highland Games event nearby and its a bank holiday soon...whatever that is; that'll be Day 31. So credit where credit's due Base Camp Director, soon this madness will end and we can go to Torquay x So tomorrow is a rest day, breakfast at half nine, taxi back to Dunkeld at noon, and a 19 odd mile walk to Blair Atholl where the luxuries end at a campsite. Then rest and prep for the big day on Sunday. It'll be a 6 am start to give me a fighting chance of crossing the Cairngorms via Lairig Ghru (pardon spelling these are all from memory) to Aviemore. I don't want to stay there over night, I want to push on and get it done. I don't know if that is possible. I will try. This is the bit I've been looking forward to the most out of the whole journey. Can't wait. It is a possible 38 miler though. Also I saw a road sign to Inverness earlier, only 100 miles. There's only 220 left to go.

DAY 29

West Bridge over the River Tay, Perth.

Birnam, near Dunkeld.



A note about the blog

I must be the only LEJOGer without a smart phone. This means I don't have the ability to update this blog when I'm on the trail. My support team back home kindly offered to update the blog for me, so this will be communicated by text message and written up on my behalf. It will therefore be brief and without photos. I will expand on this when I get back from my journal entries, dictaphone recordings and photo journal. The detailed account will be published as a book which will be available on Amazon.

Charity

Thank you to everyone who has made a donation to Helping Hands for the Blind, a respectable local charity. You can make a donation here. Using Gift Aid, the charity is able to claim an additional percentage of each donation from the government as part of the Gift Aid scheme.  

While I am not tracking how much has been raised, the charity themselves may wish to do that; leaving a note with your donation such as "LEJOG" will help them do that. To be frank, it's more important that they receive donations than it is for me to take credit; they're actually doing something important whereas I am going on what could be described as a holiday.

My books

Lastly and leastly, I am an independent author. Writing is a pleasure even if reading it isn't! I will write an account of my LEJOG journey in the form of a book which hopefully will encourage other people to give LEJOG a try (and probably discourage many more). If you want a copy, the first batch will be given free of charge. Ask and you shall receive...

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