pickReally enjoyed this memoir of a couple who lose everything that matters (their house, his health) except each other. They walk the southwest coast of England when they nowhere else to go or nothing to do. I am going to read the sequel immediately and look forward to the movie coming out based on the book.
Walking the South West Coast Path while sitting in an sirport waiting for our flight 🏡
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Denise, I squealed when I opened this book! I‘ve wanted to read it for forever!!! Thank you for thinking of me this holiday season! Sending you joy! 🤩 🩵❄️💙 #LitsyLove
so-soWhile I am glad they were able to spend more time together, I can‘t imagine the risks they ran or how much pain her husband was in at the beginning of each walk. Sometimes the tone felt very incongruous to the situation. I completely understood why people backed off in many cases when they learned the couple were homeless. No one likes to be reminded of how close we are to being homeless ourselves or of our mortality.
'Excited, afraid, homeless, fat, dying, but at least if we made that first step we had somewhere to go, we had a purpose. And we really didn't have anything better to do at half past three on a Thursday afternoon than to start a 630-mile walk.'
Strictly speaking, this is about fellwalking rather than #Hiking, but they‘re two sides of the same coin!
#DaysDevotedTo
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pickA sad story in the end. If not the book, then the author. The story of a cancer survivor who decides to commemorate this by walking from Washington DC to New York City and write about the people he met and the places he saw. The book was published in 2023. the authors cancer relapsed and he died this year.
pick#bookspin for October - LOVED this! So sad, yet uplifting, really makes me want to walk the south west coast path one day!
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