A smooth but long flight.  Arrived at car rental only to discover that my license was expired! Huh?  Never got a notice to renew and never really looked at its expiration date.  So, no driving for me – just a white knuckle grip on the dash and constant reminders to Mike to stay on the left, but not so close that he sideswipes the opposite cars.  And don’t even mention the back-to-back roundabouts.  I swear they are a semi- organized free-for-all.  I am sure we would be mushed, or divorced, if we didn’t have a NAV system in the rental.  An absolute must for any future England trip.

Okay, so we have been caught up in life in general.  It’s now October 2025, and while we have continued walking in the UK, we have not updated our site.  In the interest of actually completing this record, we will just post a quick summary of each walk, with pictures.

Our last pre-COVID walk was in

After a long break due to family obligations (Mike’s sister Sandy had serious health issues which led her to leave her home in Maine and move in with us in Pa) and the absence of a solution to our dog conundrum (no good plan of what to do with our dog while we walked in the midwest for several weeks), we are finally getting back to walking, this time in England!  Heading out tonight for a week long “long distance walk” through the Costwalds.  Looking forward to 4 days of hiking on a 37 mile circular route.