Before I grow too old: A journey from John O'Groats to Lands End

By Pat Jilks

"Everybody has something they would love to do. Some ambitions are even legal. Mine was legal and was a simple enough one. For years I had wanted to walk from one end of Great Britain to the other but, somehow, there had never been the time."Pat Jilks was born in Ilfracombe, Devon where her family had been evacuated during the war. Her young life was spent in South London, until the 1970's when she relocated with her husband and children to a small farm in East Sussex where she spent many happy years living the dream of farming and self sufficiency. In the 3rd act of her life she's been walking all over the world and volunteering in and around Sussex between trips. In this book Pat describes her journey between John O' Groats and Land's End which she made in the early 1990's. It's a story about the people she met along the way and her personal meditations on life, the universe and everything.For those who walk regularly in the 21st century, it's a reminder of a time before mobile telephony was all pervasive, let alone smartphones and the internet, and how in the not too distant past even the logistics of such a trip were very different from what they are today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1495419304
• ISBN13: 9781495419300
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.7" x 5.0"