You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike?

The prompts that sometimes fuel these blogs are set by my blog host and are generated for International bloggers.

I am British and have lived almost exclusively in London and the Southern parts of England. A cross-country trip in the  South of England has an enormous geographic problem . Every place in the South has roads that have prioritised getting to London. Public Transport follows that model. The only comfortable way to laterally cross-country would be in a camper van. Walking would also be possible using a combination of minor roads and footpaths. Walking would not be a safe prospect.

But what would motivate me to do such a journey? I suppose it would be the ability to visit towns and villages whose names are familiar because I drive past signposts that their names are on or stations that fast trains speed me through. 

To get the longest possible lateral journey I would need to drive north to Bideford on the North Coast of Devon and then proceed eastwards to Margate.

I think I could get the line straighter by avoiding Motorways and A roads. It is not quite the longest lateral journey available in Britain but it is the longest involving one country.

Two facts that I was oblivious to until I wrote this blog.

Neither journey is ever likely to be made by me but I have pondered what would motivate me to do such a thing.

* Late Spring/ Early Summer.

* Independent Coffee Shops and Farm shops with Cafes in beautiful locations.

*If money were no object then the ability to book the most luxurious Air Bnb’s along the route to spend a little longer exploring areas I have never visited before.

The thought intrigues me, no such thing really exits. The only Lateral path that exists is the Coast to Coast path established in the North of England.

Blogging…

It makes me think!