Day minus 1 - Aberdeen

Well, I'm on my way, months of planning has come to this. The Caledonian Sleeper to Old London Town, to meet up with all the other mad people who think six months alternating between a truck and a tent is a good thing!

It was hard to leave home like this, surprisingly hard. All the preparation doesn't prepare you for actually doing it. It feels a bit like a leap of faith, a leap into the unknown.

And we're off! The train just pulled smoothly away from the platform with no warning, into the darkness. Passing the industrial estates of Torry and Cove, which look peaceful at this time of night, making the first few steps on my 10000 mile journey.

My car is two years old, and it has just completed 10000 miles. I'm doing that here, now, in six months. The distance is quite staggering, when you stop to think about it. But, as a wise man once said, a journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.