A suggestion that I join a friend on a walk led me to start this blog. We’re talking one of the world’s great walks, the trek along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. The process of deciding to say yes and all the preparations that I have made has been life changing, physically and mentally. I am the fittest and lightest that I have been for years. I have never worked harder and yet never had so much energy. I have met new people, studied different cultures, bought things that I never planned to be part of my life (a self-inflating ground mat for goodness sake!) and have finally, five years on from losing my beloved husband Richard, felt genuinely happy. Even if this trip were cancelled tomorrow it has delivered more benefits that I could have dreamed off on that December evening.
I simply can’t keep all this to myself. I feel the need to share. Writing this blog is a means of ordering my thoughts and making sense of what has happened and will happen to me. I hope it may help and amuse and I know it will help me in achieving the happy and healthy balance of life on the level.