Route Finding.

Having picked up a little more enthusiasm yesterday evening, I pulled up the mileage spreadsheet and looked at a road atlas to have a go at refining some of the distances on certain parts of the trip. The idea was to reduce mileage on days that would encounter hills – Cornwall and Devon were the obvious ones and then the Lakes and then Scotland. That doesn’t leave much of the trip that is flat!

The first two days have been mileage limited to 70 but then I got a bit stuck. I suspect that I will need to chat to others that have completed the route to get their take on when it’s hilly and when it’s not.  Given that I could not solve this immediate issue, I started to highlight the route on the atlas, eventually I will cut up the map to reduce it’s bulk and have a flicker book of the route.

I have been enjoying a lot of the comments I have read about ‘death trap roads’ – again, this would seem to be the case for most of the trip.