Day 1. Folly Wood to Tetbury.
The entries for the walk is written after the event and some of the points are general rather than about specific days.The comments and observations recorded are limited to my thoughts on the walk, especially about walking and walking as a way of experiencing trees and landscape. So, sorry, no mention of where the best bath or shower was, nor where the best breakfast or most comfortable bed was, or even who had the best blisters…
Sense of anticipation setting off – looking forward to the experience and also unsure if I will be able to walk 100 miles in six days – or even complete day one.We won’t actually know how far it will be until we’ve done it.
Within the first couple of hours we were walking through woodland I’d not previously seen and from time to time emerging to cross roads that I know from a car but now they are barriers to our movement rather than routes to our destination. Feeling rushed by the pace of the walking itself, the tree rubbing and posting. Less time to be aware of “being” than I’d expected. Seeing a lot that I’d normally stop to sense and/or record. We discuss the possibility of a variation on the project whereby we wear a video camera and skype direct to a screen in the SITE exhibition in the Museum. I think we only discussed this on the first day.
