Why?

Good question. Why walk for such a stupid distance? Why walk at all? Several reasons:

1) Escape. I think we all need to get away once in a while. Whether it's a weekend away or a 2 week summer holiday, it recharges the batteries and we come back feeling refreshed. I just find 2 weeks never long enough.

2) Perspective. Sometimes we lose sight of what we're doing and where we are going. We get stuck in the 9 to 5 and before we know it, we've retired! Time away from the usual gives you a different perspective and gives us new ideas and insights on where we are in life.

3) Because I don't want to be old and grey, with slippers and a pipe thinking - "Shit, I wish I had done that."

4) Because you get ridiculously fit, physically and mentally, and feel fantastic.

5) It's a test of your strength as a person. For all the good days, there will be some right stinkers too. If you can get through them all then it's a better person that comes out of the other end.

6) You don't have to wake up to an alarm clock.

7) You met loads of like minded people and make friends for life.

8) Or, put another way, in the words of Mark Wallington (Author of Travels with Boogie) -

"The best journeys have no motive. They are capricious affairs, made for no other reason than they exist, for no other goal than fun."