Long distance mission

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Long distance mission

2018 was planned to make my longest journeys and make inroads into the compass extremes and new myriads. It began with a January foray into Lincolnshire , all fine besides it being dark on the return, but still gained a good range of spots in SK and TF myriads. Exeter followed, longer and further and dark when I got there as it was also raining since Wiltshire which wrecked many of the photos with water damage on and around the lens. But a success as completed and got some usable photos in SX as well as plenty there and back. The piece de resistance (for my map anyway) was a repeat of a journey made in 1992 (with no camera) to Harrogate in April , straight up the usually unpopulated A1 via Wetherby , which went extremely smoothly. After asking various people to share the workload I finally put a note on Facebook, and was responded to by someone I'd known for years but never met who also likes long day trips. He crossed London to get here and was a very entertaining partner and saved me driving back. Again by the time we left Yorkshire it was beginning to get dark and struggled to get much usable to fill more of SK but that was only a secondary issue.

The following trip was for the large number of pre-Worboys signs in the west country, four collected coming back from Exeter, but a loop from Podimore to Devizes in May bagged nine signs and lots of new territory . Due to the sensitivity of advertising the locations of valuable artefacts I only add them now if they are here already, such as this one.

Now I can relax and cover new territory closer to home and places I haven't covered much, with just a planned trip to SJ ahead around Wolverhampton. But my main mission is now complete as all other journeys besides one which was more than one day to Morecambe from the 80s and 90s have now been revisited one way or another, besides an extremely dull one to West Wales door to door on the M4 I can manage without a repeat visit. If possible the next proper long journey will be made by plane but no more until the time.