Jaunt

In contrast to night 1, I spend a rather a cold night on Rackham Hill... I didn't get to record any more but check out the Hard Up Hiker channel for what happened next... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoEN9C24Pag Chanctonbury Ring and the artwork attached, and bailing cos of the high winds.

Where we spend a quiet lonely night in Graffham Down (apart from some deer), then create an artwork overlooking a cold and windy Bignor...later do a moonlight Flit from Torygraph Daily Mail posh Sundown Town of Amberley... But where can I sleep?

A stealth camping trip from Cocking to Botolphe via Chanctonbury Ring.. This was the first part via Guildford..or Grotford as my family calls it!

After the cold disaster that was Jaunt 2 in October I have been wary of camping in Autumn and Winter...and also I have never fully wild camped or took part in this poulart stealth camping trend. So on a cold slightly rainy November night I did both... Recorded in a secret location in Surrey.

So I press on to Exmouth despite the lies of the distance markers (4! 3! No 6!) via the official western point the Geoneedle but my own end at Rodney Point (pictured) and get there with knackered feet as it goes dark. I find a pub, get a taxi, have a strange Pink Hooch then get back to the campsite. 2 years of work is over! Now what?

Did two paintings at Ladram Bay then walked to Budleigh Salterton which I liked so much I took the Coastal Path to Exmouth the first chance I got.

Showers, sudden winds, a tent 4am episode and walking from Salcombe Mouth to Otterton.

I got to Branscombe and the Tea Room is magically still open, I get a lift with a wonderfully daffy Staffie named Cassie, and end up at Waitrose at Sidsomething. I walk back and create an ode to the Legendary Sidford Spar, and walk up THAT hill.

Where I say the classic ' I think it' s rather flat' and find out it isn't... In a heatwave.

Lyme didn't stick - issued with the campsite and a feeling that I was just retreading old.ground ans possibly cos of buses being stuck there, I left for Salcombe Regis near Sidmouth.

Slightly drunken ramblings at the seafront at Lyme Regis, about the meaning of the sea and why I am so attracted to it

Walking into Lyme Regis after camping up and talking tech woes and the YouTube Shutdown of my hiking channel... This is a few days old, I didn't have the battery or connection to upload it.

A ramble about home, and how the project has changed with the physical and economic challenges, and how I want to go forward. I was going to suffix this with 'but I went to Lyme anyway' - in fact I am on the bus now, but just found out Youtube has removed my hiking channel and really am at the 'one more thing I am going home' stage. But where is home?

I'll Tumble For Ya... Literally. The kind of tumble I like is the big rock walls down the slopes of Corfe Castle or a tumble dryer (no sign of one of those). Not falling during a walk. Something I have never done so far, but it follows a similar fall on concrete steps at home. And it is the 13th podcast! Cannot make this stuff up...

Getting lost on the way to Chapman's Pool and why I hate Swanage so much with the story of California Farm and the secret quarry.

Walking back to the campsite after a nice meal at the New Inn, talking about neurodiversity, Pathological Demand Avoidance, shouting at myself and honouring the last word of 'working holiday'

Finally get into Kimmeridge late but no headtorch, a surprise pub, return of the Children of the Corn path and an angry drunk Karen, brought in part to you by the National Trust's free charging and WiFi facilities!

I made it to Arish Mell at 4pm with low water and tried filtering puddle water which worked but the filter kept blocking... I avoided the muddy puddle stream that the cows were shitting and pissing in. A good samaritan arrived and have me some water... I headed up to Lulworth Castle and then to Povington Hill, deciding to try and get the Tyneham to Kimmeridge section done as well...depite not havi...

Continuing the walk I get to Tyneham via Lulworth Ranges walking from Corfe

They:ll always leave the red flag flying here... Walking across Lulworth Ranges to get to Arish Mell and Mupe Bay on a boiling hot day.

An enforced off day looking for stuff to repair my air mattress, lighter woes and camping stoves and thinking of running light without my art gear (which was the point of the trip!)

Quarries, airbed worries and knights in shining armour do a no show, the walk from Seacombe to Chapman's Pool via a dangerous Winspit Quarry, radar history, a 13th century Chapel, volunteer Coastguards and an Uppy Downy...and a nice meal in Kingston (not that one). But then a long night on deflating air mattress and a knackered next day and attempts to fix the bed, so will this trip go the same wa...

Where I travel back to (Harry) Seacombe Bottom, do an art and then face the No Water Issue that abandoned the walk 2 years ago...

After a fairly successful day of three hours work in the only brief non-rainy part of yesterday, we have drama with deer and airbed puncturea which the latter might abort the trip... But I am trpapee here cos of strikes!

Where I find out Corfe Castle has no food even at 9pm on an August weekday, take a late night trip into Swanage to scoff Chinese food on the seafront in the cold (again!) and tentcast about rain, new tents and gear. #jaunt4 Tent cast video version will be on my Hard Up Hiker channel when it uploads https://youtube.com/@harduphiker