Ideas - that is the root of all the trouble. We get ideas that something may be in some way good. When I was seventeen I and three friends had a great idea - let's do the Pennine Way. The idea was good. The perception of the Pennine Way was good. See England, get some exercise. Maybe have some fun. All good stuff.
It rained for 22 days straight, almost all day. One friend didn't even start because he broke his leg in a parachute jump just before the beginning, and another friend fell about 70 miles short of finishing, the victim of blood poisoning picked up through infected blisters.
I sincerely recommend it to everyone. Reality and perception rarely cross paths and the Pennine Way, after you have seen photographs like the one here, has a way of reminding us that this is no picnic, this path we have chosen.
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