The travel starts

All packed up and ready to go, including the knitting projects.

It looks like a lot, but I’ll be gone for almost a month and as some of you may know I  have a fear of running out of yarn.

The traveling projects include dish cloths. 

The obligatory socks, a lace weight shawl and I snuck in the black linen for a top. #whynot

Goodbye to a chilly rainy Mystic.

Not shown, the overflow bag that will not be coming on the Offa’s Dyke trail but does contain emergency yarn and outfits for the wedding weekend of course.

Planes trains and automobiles in reverse order.

Like mother like daughter some might say, travel, wine and knitting.

Now chilling at Logan waiting for the flight to London and hoping it will be warmer and sunnier in the UK 

Getting Ready

It's an even year so its time for another longish walk. This year I chose to walk the Offa's Dyke, a walk my parents took in 1995 when they were practicing for the Appalachian Trail. They kept a hand written diary that included counting all the stiles, sometimes in the 40s in one day of walking, so of course I'll be counting them too.

What is a stile, you may ask - typically steps that allow people but not animals to cross from  one field to another. See picture below.

As I'm getting everything ready for the trip the big question for the day has been what knitting and how much to take.... currently it may be yarn for 1 or 2 pairs of socks, 1 lace weight shawl, dishcloths, will that be enough, what about linen for a summer top? Natasha says no, but I may just sneak it in.