I Would Walk 1000 Miles

Mike at Blue Dragon has popped a post on the Blue Dragon blog about the Walk. The photo may look familiar
Less than 2 months till I start, folks. Scared yet? I am.

Teeny minor update just to let you know I’m still plugging the walk! Quite a few people have said they’ll have words with other people they know and I even got a free advert up in Siem Reap (see the photo). Don’t worry, the pub I was in provides marker pens specifically for such a purpose! My dad also sent me a list of people back home who’ve offered cash and I’ve added them to the Donations Received page. The current total stands at £450 and $US 200 with a handful more people promising something but with no amount confirmed as yet. Thank you one and all! As ever, please keep passing the word on and getting people to come to the site. And also, if you do donate, please let me know with a mail so that I can keep tabs on how much money this walk is raising.

A huge thank you to Cedric of MaxLifestyle.net for popping a quick story up on their ABC of Hiking site. Here’s hoping it gets a few more people’s attention!

OK, so I’ve had about half a dozen emails from people on CouchSurfing.com, but given how recently the article was posted there I’m quite pleased. One offer of accommodation in Switzerland, one of someone to accompany for some of the walk and several words of encouragement. One guy told me about a friend of his who walked across Finland - roughly 800 miles - and it took her 2 months. So I could be about right on my estimates, allowing for stop-off time.

Keep ‘em coming, folks!

The kind folk at CouchSurfing.com have popped an article about the walk on their news page. Nothing you folks don’t already know, but you can check it out here (I’m not sure if you need an account to read the news, though).

I’ve already had two people get in touch as a result, one asking if he can walk with me! Good stuff!

I also got a reply back from a major telecoms company this morning regarding another begging letter. Nothing positive as yet and I won’t name them unless something good happens, but it’s all progress.

OK, I’ve added a whole two new pages and updated the template of this blog a bit. Please help publicise the event and the web site. As well as posters, there are now also icons you can pop on your own blog, or in the signature you use on forums. Just link it to this page, please! Finally, I’ve plotted a basic route. It needs tweaked and made more precise, stops need to be calculated and so on, but it’s a start and it’s available from the route page.