Caffeine fuelled inspiration...

I haven't written in a while, since the last day of my expedition up the Western Isles in May 2008. This trip was a truly amazing journey for me, much more than I ever thought it would be, from so many different perspectives.

I'm sitting in Portsmouth, with my relatively new job doing renewable energy project management, which I'm about to be made redundant from due to restructuring, so I'm coming back to Scotland! I can't wait. Even though I was aware of it, it's surprised me how much moving away has made me realise what I miss and what I want to go back to.

So I'm planning the next Sustainable Expeditions trip: Round Skye for a few weeks in July (or August). I'm hopefully going to know much more about living in the outdoors, what you can and can't eat. And hopefully will get a lot more local produce as well. Also, because it's more accessible, I'm hoping that some paddling buddies will be able to come along. I'd really love to have some outdoorsy people along who can help contribute to the cause that is learning more about being self sufficient. So, the plans continue. I've got a boat manufacturer who's interested in giving me a boat made majorly from natural ignredients, so we'll see how that goes. Watch this space! And please get in touch if you have any thoughts/ideas/opinions.

Ciao for now.