John Muir Way and the Moving Parts

So, next week I embark on "Part 3" of my Conserver Level John Muir Award and will be walking coast to coast on the John Muir Way from Dunbar to Helensburgh. Much of it coincides with the National Cycle Network, so it's also a walk to mark my 10 years working at Sustrans on volunteering. "Part 1" of the Award was to do the planning and prep - organising 10 days of walking with Explore/Conserve/Share tasks along the way took a surprising amount of time, although not much to blog about. The John Muir Way website took a lot of work out of stage planning for me, but thinking through how best to organise travel, accommodation and inviting volunteers, colleagues, ex-colleagues, friends and family to join me was something I dilly-dallied on for ages, eventually putting everything in one spreadsheet, closing my eyes and hitting send to share it with almost everyone I know, then anxiously waiting to see if I would have walking buddies. I do. Quite a few of them :) And I have the John Muir Way passport to get stamped along the way. So all I need now is the weather and some good socks and a supply of jelly babies. But the Conserver Award takes 20 days. The original "Part 2" of my plan to complete this amount of time was to be some stitching craftivism projects which were supposed to be done LONG before the walk and taken with me, but which have been chronically waylaid. Maybe pounding out 134 miles will give me time to reshape that part of the plan!