Stu's Rusty Bucket

Monday, January 10, 2005

Screenshot says it all.

In less than two weeks, the USA side approved the fiancee visa application!!
(now just to finish the UK side!!!)

Pennines and my Hike.

The two maps that make up the Pennine Way hike showed up in the mail this morning! Whooo Hooo! I am excited.

This adds 270 odd miles to my hike and now Ive committed myself to doing a month of hiking. I am looking forward to doing two of the UK’s majour trails and taking on a just for the heck of it 75 miler at the end.

So the plan is

1 - Pennine Way, from just outside manchester at Edale all the way up to Kirk Yetholm in Scotland, just over the English border.

2 - Need to get some kind of transport across to the coast to Berwick Opon Tweed, where I can get the mainline train up to Glasgow via Edinburgh. There is a listed bus that goes from Kirk Yetholm to Kelso and from there I can get a bus service up to Edinurgh, but I dont know how frequent this is.

3 - From Glasgow I local bus it to the suburb of Milngavie and start the West Highland Way up to Fort William.

4 - Summit Ben Nevis at end of West Highland Way.

5- Start Great Glen way in Fort William and continue up to Inverness.

6 - Get train service back down to Edinburgh then back to Darlington where I can get a local train to Middlesbough! Home!

Now I need to go over maps on where to resupply on the PW. I think I can make the whole WHW without resupply and the same goes for the GGW.

I would rather not have to tote 5+ days of food tho, and want to keep things light, so if I can resupply each 3 or 4 days continuously, that would be bonza.

Now I am wondering if there will be a border marker on the Pennine Way when I cross into Scotland, but since its a no-name hill in a no-name field I probably wont be able to tell… Guess I will find out when I get there…