Many people and groups came and walked with me but above all the 4 months I walked alone confirmed the significance of doing a deed alone. Writing this in retrospect confirms my prediction that taking the decision to undertake this task will both touch many people on the way, that it will provide interest, and that it will give me personally a huge archive of material which I can use for years to come. The east coast was heavily populated, the west coast not so, and so I embark on this year's quest more openly and with more flexibility. I expect nature and the elements to throw themselves at me and to show themselves in many varieties, both challengingly and magnificently for which I will try to be prepared. The Songline will be more outdoors and within nature for which Orlando has written an appropriate piece of music. It will take me down as far as St. David's Cathedral in Wales by the end of august this year.