The Route of all Evil...

Christ, it's actually quite hard working out where you can and can't walk without fearing for your life or legal status these days!  Used to be that all motorways were off limits to pedestrians but now the Local Authority only has to whack up a sign and it's no go Pedro, and you have to divert 50 miles out of the way to get another 10 miles down the line...

Anyway.  Rant over for now; I've finished plotting the route I'll be taking and should be posting it onto Google Earth later in't week so you can actually fly down the roads and paths I'll be taking, as well as following the picture and low-fi vid posts that any well-wishers and I will be posting on FB and Twatter...  Can I just do the flying bit..?  Skimming down the lanes, highways and byways..?  It's too late to take that option is it..?  Really..???  But I thought...  Oh..!  Bugger.....

OK, so fooling aside, the journey will start by leaving Mayfield then heading out through the woods where I walk Dexy most of the time to Edgehead, down through Ford and onto the A68.  From there I pretty much follow it all the way to Darlington and then take the A19 to and through York, then south...  After Doncaster (where I'll try to find Jeremy Clarkson's Old School and send the address to the Simon Wiesenthall Centre), it's Bawtry, Retford, Muskham and Newark, then Grantham and I'll pick up an old droving route, Bullock Rd, as I avoid the A1(M) aroind Peterborough (Sorry Peterborough, nothing personal, eh..?)... This'll take me almost to Alconbury, where I'll pick-up the A1 again.

Then at Biggleswade I can head onto the A600 which takes me to Hitchin and the A602...  Which will get me into North Stevenage, past the Lister Hospital and then it's only a couple of very short miles to meet destiny at Ian's door.  Six Days..?  Well, five and a half actually, but Really..?  I hope so, dearly, and I'll do everything in my ability to make it so.  Thanks Gene Rodenberry and Patrick Stewart for that closing line.