I haven’t written much about the weather we’ve been experiencing over here because, to date, it’s been quite lovely. Temperatures in the mid-60s to upper-70s, partly cloudy to mostly sunny days, and not a drop of rain to be felt.<\/p>\n
Our luck changed today, however, after I checked the forecast at breakfast and saw a 90% chance of rain for the entire day. The meteorological probability was just too great, and sure enough, it rained 90% of the time we were on our 16 mile walk that took nearly 9 hours. The 10% of that time that it didn’t rain was the time that we spent indoors at a restaurant for lunch in Painswick and a quick stop at a pharmacy for essentials.<\/p>\n
There was a neat progression throughout the day in regard to care for our shoes. We started off being very cautious about where and how we stepped across puddles and questionable areas of soft ground, to, by the last few hours of the walk, tromping through standing water, mud and knee high grass that was soaked with rain with little care to how wet or dirty we may have gotten. Once your socks are wet, they’re wet.<\/p>\n
Another interesting aspect of getting soaked while walking is how much I actually hoped it didn’t stop raining…or at least that it wouldn’t get hot and sunny. Today was the coolest day of the walk temperature wise, and I can only imagine how miserable things would have become if the sun had come out following the rain and created a most probably unbearable humidity. It’s the lesser of the two evils. I was already wet, so let the rain pour!<\/p>\n
Tomorrow’s forecast looks smashing. Temperatures creep back up and the rain is moving out as I type this. It might be another muddy day, but we basically became experts at traversing mud on this most recent walk, so it shouldn’t be too problematic.<\/p>\n
Dinner tonight was different than usual. Instead of going back out and getting soaked walking to a Pub, we ordered takeout Chinese food at the recommendation of our hostess. She was even kind enough to go pick it up for us! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
All is well that ends well, and today has definitely ended well despite the slowness of walking in the rain and very unkindly state the trails take on when they receive copious amounts of water.<\/p>\n
Less than half way left to get to Bath now. That’s four more days of walking that I’m sure will fly by as it’s hard to believe the first four have come and gone as quickly as they have!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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