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Day 33 : Never Say Never
-Limogne-en-Quercy- True to form, I slept terribly. My mind did not enjoy cooperating with my clearly exhausted body, and just sort of went wild every time it got dark, deciding it obviously must be the best time to think. Brilliant. Who needs sleep anyway, especially with your alarms set for…
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Day 32 : Minor Setbacks
-Cajarc- I was up vaguely early – not that it came naturally. I had been planning to leave by 8.00am, and got up at a prompt 8.15am. Aahhh well. I packed my (very wet) tent up, got myself clean and sorted, did my morning chores. Cajarc is in a valley,…
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Day 31 : Celebrating a Month of Movement by Staying Completely Still for Twenty-Four Hours
-Cajarc- I wake to the calming sound of a sixteen-wheeler pedal-to-the-metal screeching around the highway turns. Mm goodmorning to you to too mate. It was 8.51am – not exactly the mind-bending sleep in I’d been hoping for, but knowing I didn’t have to walk a step today definitely made it…
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Day 30 : Hartmut Engel, We Need to Talk
-Figeac- I woke up early (for me), at a shocking 7.15am! I’d been up almost all night, probably the most restless one so far. And, like yesterday, as I got myself ready to be alive, I contemplated a rest day. Figeac was so nice, and I could explore, maybe even…
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Day 29 : Semi-Trucks Make for the Best White Noise
-Livinhac le Haut- When I woke, it was,, quiet. The rain had stopped, and the campground was still. It felt strange, after the havoc of yesterday, and when I stood up, you could see the evidence. Signs on the floor, letters bleeding onto the gravel, motorhomes folded in on themselves.…
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Day 28 : I Swear I Get Less Grouchy Soon
-Conques- I wake up more tired than I was before I went to sleep, which, as far as sleeping goes, isn’t usually the order. The idea of a rest day is calling to me – more sleep, and time to sort myself out. I debate while I go to the…
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Day 27 : Struggling Actor Recites the Same Monologue He’s Been Repeating the Last Ten Years Expecting Something to Change
-Golinhac- I woke up a little later than normal, somewhere around nine; last one up, as per usual. The toilets are,, shut, weirdly, which complicates things, but I digress. It’s a quick job of packing up now, I’ve had my practice – long gone are the mornings of struggling for…
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Day 26 : I Gotta Daaaance (Wrow-Arou-Wrooooww)
-Espalion- I slept almost uninterrupted, only once getting up to get water and have the absolute shit scared out of me by this creepy fucker right here hiding behind the wall to the potable tap. Sweet fucking Christ. Why would they put that there?! Heart POUNDING I walked back through…
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Day 25 : Unexpected Encounters
-Saint-Chély-d’Aubrac- I had been up getting blogs ready to post till 2.00am last night, so I’d allowed myself a lie-in, my alarm set for ten. I woke up at 8.37am on the dot though, again. Troubling – I was not a fan of my new normal. Against my better instincts,…
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