On 1 June 2025 I turn sixty. To mark this inauspicious occasion and celebrate a life lived on foot I've decided to embark on an extended ambulatory excursion which, over the course of twelve months and 5000 miles/8000 km, will take me from the UK to Spain, Mexico and Central America. It will be a journey into my past, an autobiographical saunter through the landscapes which have shaped me. I am the land, the land is me.
And then, of course, when I've walked five thousand miles, I will walk five thousand more ...