I am worn down. My muscles ache from walking 10-13 miles with ascents and descents of over 2500 feet; the bottoms of my feet are bruised from walking on too… Read more

Those words aren’t about my experience; but about others’ experiences near the South West Coast Path. More particularly, individuals experience those feelings on October 27, 1916, January 26, 1917, and… Read more

I’ve always enjoyed hiking and walking. In Springfield, I kept up with my mother as dad usually sauntered with the distance between us growing greater and greater. During my college… Read more

Last fall, while traveling to my starting point at Minehead for the South West Coast Path, I traveled by bus through Glastonbury. I glimpse individuals living a different way of… Read more

“It’s die colors” the German says with an accent when I ask him what he notices the most. How right he is. Isaac Newton in 1704 studied color and light… Read more

Walking has so many interesting elements. While I love walking, the first week always is a bit uneven. Getting used to new terrain, new views, new food. However, I finally… Read more

How innumerable are words about a path or the path. I’ll add my own words as this hike along the South West Coast Path unfolds. While my Path started inland… Read more

As I start my second day, I pass an older fellow having his morning coffee or tea. “Good morning.” He cheerfully raises his cup “Merry Christmas to you!” “And Happy… Read more

Last October south of St. Ives on the Cornwall coast, I stop to chat with another solitary South West Coast Path walker who is walking the opposite direction. After a… Read more

I’m not the only person to have Bath as my destination. Probably two hours after arriving at London’s Heathrow, I’m on the bus. Since learning that my first days of… Read more