They say a journey of a 1000 miles begins with a single step. I suppose a journey of 30,000 mile is more relivent to me, but my first step was, not filled with excitment at the road ahead - that would come later - but with sadness about the road behind. the hardest part was saying goodbye to everyone, with all the tears, mate brilliant mates who organised a great leaving party, my mum & dad, and everyone else (WEM) but once i was on the coach & on my way the excitment started to grow. I thought of the line at the end of the Shawshank redemption: "I find i'm so excited I can't sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitment only a free man can feel. A
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