walk the West Highland Way

me and my dad talked about doing this a couple of years ago, before i went away to college.

i want to do this in the next year, maybe summer? i want to achieve this before he gets too old :(

for the moonwalk we are scheduling a practice run (May 26) three weeks before the event, and yesterday the ladies suggested we walk Glasgow to Milngavie. As a 20 mile return, this covers our practice run and also ticks off one of the journeys for THIS goal.

the book was in today’s post, making me grin as I pushed my way in through the front door.

A friend of mine expressed interest in doing this walk with me, and I worked out the problem of her working on weekends when I realized that I have plenty of holiday time left and I can just take one Monday off each month until we get this done. Yay.

We’re meeting tomorrow for a photoshoot, and I’m eager to bring it along to chat about over coffee.

I’ve just added “West Highland Way: Glasgow to Fort William by Charlie Loram” to my wishlist. I noticed it while browsing in the outdoor store yesterday. This next year I’m committing myself to being more physically active, to saying yes to my wants, to doing all those things I kept telling myself were impossible.

I don’t have to take a week off to accomplish this goal—I can break it down into many weekend trips. The ultimate prize will be knowing that I will have done this, walked all the way from Glasgow to Fort William.

im walking the way solo in 2 weeks

Kinda hard to walk the West Highland Way when you are 6,000 miles away. I’m stuck in the States for a few months, so I’m gonna move this goal to Spring of 2008.

I think I’d like to incorporate this into my “exercise more” goal, though, and make monthly progress reports on either training or by actually completing walk sections on weekends.

that was the year we walked to Fort William, the worst thing about it was Willie pulling ligaments falling down a ditch on the first day! the best thing, was the time we spent together getting there – a brill shared experience we will always remember

I received a postcrossing card that said they’d started their West Highland Way walk in Glasgow. From there the mentions of the walk have snowballed and now I’m really eager to train for this. I’ve looked around and I think it’ll cost appx £500 and a week of holiday. My sisters have checked out the info and are both interested in flying over here and doing this hike with me next Spring.