Rauros Falls!

I have just reached Rauros Falls, in my Eowyn Challenge walk! I’m now on the last leg of Frodo and Sam’s journey, which is from Rauros Falls to Mount Doom, a 470 mile trek.

I have walked 1310 (easily recordable) miles since April 2003.

When I’ve reached Mount Doom, I have to decide if I’m going to reboot back to Rauros Falls, which is where everybody split up, and follow individual tracks to different places, or … what. :) I think I’ll probably do that, but since I can’t imagine getting to Mount Doom this year, it’s not something I have to think too hard about right now. :)

I’ve also just decided to break my bike journey from Minas Tirith back to Hobbiton into the 3 legs of the journey the Eowyn Challenge site has set out, because otherwise it’s just too depressing. It’s much more cheery to be 365 miles into the 535 mile trip from Minas Tirith to Isengard than 365 miles into the 1625 mile trip all the way straight through to Hobbiton.

I’m really getting a lot of mileage (no pun intended!) from this Middle Earth walking stuff. I’m not even a Tolkien fan, so I haven’t got a clue why it’s so satisfying, but it certainly is. I expect I’ll do all the walks they’ve got, in time. That would be a total of, let’s see. 7,816 miles. I’ve got a long way to go. :)

miles to Rauros Falls: 389! Yay!
miles to Mount Doom: 1