Day 3 - Rest day, picking up Snowdrop 

Up about 0530, then out the door to catch the 0712 from St Ives to St Erth. St Ives is on a branch line, St Erth is the main hub where it all happens, I can get eg to Edinburgh or London from here (5-ish hours to London).

To cut a long day short, I collected Snowdrop (SD) from its storage site and am now sitting in a campsite somewhere near Dartmoor. Tomorrow, I have no dongle signal here, so can't find one yet, I will find a campsite about 15 miles from St Ives, then go back to St Ives and walk to SD. I'll do something similar each day. So that gives me somewhere I can use the laptop for 3-4 hours each morning and 1-2 hours in the evening. Plus, *BIG* plus, I can just use a day sack! Bliss.

 Annoyingly, as I had no hot-spot warning I've a blister on the side of one foot. I have to up the mileage (gradually) but down the injuries. A hot-spot, on a foot or elsewhere, which is the feeling you get when something is rubbing your skin away, is like an oil light on the dashboard of a car. You have to take action asap, half a mile down the road may be too late ...

One thing I'm looking forward to is getting some aerobic exercise, road-walking with big pack was like an endurance weight-training session in a gym.