Unleash the Worm!

After a stimulating and thought-provoking weekend at the Transition Towns conference in Devon, we hopped back on the beautiful London-Penzance line, which meanders along the South Devon and Cornwall coast, providing mass transport for armies of pensioners to install themselves in their summer cottages.

We arrived at the end of the line in time for a brisk and blustery 8-mile ride across Cornish moors to base camp -  a tantalisingly delightful taster of what we hope will follow. After a few weeks of fairly frantic preparation and anticipation it feels wonderful to be actually doing it. Alll the things we forgot, all the “essential” kit we don’t have, all the training we didn’t do, all the work we didn’t finish off, suddenly feels far less important. Now all that matters is the road, our legs and raising a truck load of cash.

So, really, a million trillion thankyous to the amazingly generous people that have got us to within spitting distance of our target before we’ve even pedalled a mile. It’s so tempting to just hang out on a Cornish beach for 3 weeks and wire the money to Mexico. Seriously, don’t think we haven’t thought of it. But I guess that’s not really how this works. Now we actually have to do it, right? Right. Well, tally-ho then. It really is a strange thought to know that we are now at the furthest corner of the island and we have to get to the furthest opposite corner, with just our legs. Under our own steam, sweat and blisters.

And for those that haven’t donated – we’re not there yet. There’s currently enough money to get us close – but not all the way. As it stands we’d be stranded somewhere on the remote, midgy infested highlands of Scotland, within a haggis throw of the finish but without enough Irn-Bru to get us over over the line. (sorry foreigners, I know none of you will get these jokes, but don’t worry – they’re not very funny.) So, come on – let’s hit that target. And then lets see what else we can do.

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