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Name: Molo
Interests: I am Molo, and my handsome friend is Snoopy and we are cocker spaniels who are planning something special this winter!
We are asking people to sponsor us to walk the Island - a whole 72 miles, between now and May 2007.
We will be taking extra special walks on the Island (with Rachel and Cheryl, our humans) - enjoying all the beautiful countryside and coastline while raising money for an important and invaluable cause.
Please take the time to donate as much or as little as you can by clicking on our website link; the Earl Mountbatten Hospice has running costs of over £2 million a year and provides support to over 500 people at any one time - all of whom have a life limiting diagnosis.
Come back often; we will be keeping a record of our adventures - and if you want to join us on one of our walks, get in touch!
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Member Since:
10/28/2006
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| Today was the big day - the Annual Walk the Wight Event in which up to 5000 people walk from East to West across the Island - either the whole 26 miles, the first 12, or like us, the last 14 miles 
The weather was horrible - it was raining when we started and just got worse as we went on - the paths turned into streams, and were very slippery, it was very, very windy (40mph on Tennyson Down, Mum says) - and tbh, I didn;t have much fun 
But, we got to the end, and we have raised loads of money for the Hospice, so a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us
We couldn't take any pictures en-route cos it was too wet, but here are the ones taken at the beginning and end of the day 
Thank you Snoopy, Cheryl and Ian for keeping me and Mum company and raising money too.....it has been a fabulous experience, and Mum is already planning for next year; she wants us to walk the whole 26 miles 
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| Today I walked 14 miles with Snoopy, Mum and Snoopy's Dad - which takes the total to a massive 100 miles 
For our last practice walk for the Walk the Wight event next Sunday, we walked the whole of the route we will walk next week - but today we walked it in the opposite direction to the official route.
We followed the Tennyson Trail from Alum Bay to Carisbrooke - it was very misty up on the downs, but a lot cooler than recent walks, and there were a lot more people about too
We chatted to a few golfers on Freshwater Bay Golf Course, as they played their shots - then we walked up the hill from the Brook road with some cyclists. When we got to the top of Mottistone Down, we met a Llama Trek, I wasn't sure about the llamas at all, but Snoopy has met them before and said that they were OK 
We then walked up the track onto Brighstone Down - Mum redirected a lost motorist who thought that there was a car park at the top - after which it was a flat walk along the top of the downs to Carisbrooke - as we got close to the Castle, the mist burnt off so we could see it through the trees
So, next week is the big day - we will join in with the Walk the Wight event, and get our medal at the end. More importantly, we have raised lots of money for the Hospice. The webpages will be open for donations until next Sunday - we haven't quite reached our target, so please spare as much as you can.
Thank you to everyone who has read and supported these pages......its been great fun | | |
| We walked another 9 miles yesterday - but Mum really thought it was too hot for us doggies towards the end.
Dad dropped me, mum and Snoopy off in Brading, and we walked to Newport along the Bembridge Trail. Snoopy's mum has bought a really neat little gizmo called a coupler that allows us both to be walked on the same lead. Because we have to be leashed for the 14 mile Walk the Wight walk on the 13th May, mum decided that we were going to practice properly, and so we stayed on lead, and weren't allowed to keep stopping and sniffing .......but Mum didn't keep stopping to take pictures either
We walked up the hill onto Brading Down, firstly through the woods and then up into the fields. We walked adjacent to the road for a little way, and then down the other side of the downs into Knighton. Along the road for a little stretch and then through another couple of fields into Mersley; there were two fellow cocker spaniels in the garden of a house we passed
We then walked across the road and into the valley, which is where it got really hot  We had lots of water, and Mum made sure we kept cool by pouring water over our faces We were glad to get to Arreton Barns, though and had a big drink outside the pub, and then sat in the shade for a while to cool off and recover before the last leg.
Up onto St Georges Down, and along the path we have walked before and we finally made it into town. Mum hosed us both down to cool us off (Snoopy hates it ) and then a well earned rest.
We are really looking forward to the walk in May - mum says she has changed our target to 100 MILES as we are doing so well.
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| We are now in training for the 14 mile leg of the Walk-the-Wight
event on the 13 May 2007, so Mum decided to do a walk that she has
always wanted to do along the Cyclepath between Sandown and Newport.
We started at Sandown railway station, and walked under the railway
line, and into Perowne Way. We walked a little way through the estate
before turning onto the Cycle Path - snappily named "route 23" of the National Cycle Network.
We started by walking alongside the caravan park and into the
countryside. It wasn't long before mum got the camera out, but I have
to admit, it was very pretty:
 
We soon met some of the locals - Mum told me to stop licking my lips 
The sun came out, and Mum took off her sweatshirt. It's all right for her she doesn't have a fur coat like mine, but I found another way to cool off
The path took us through a lot of the villages on the South side of the Island; first through Alverstone, then Langbridge, and then to the Horringford Crossing, just outside Arreton. We then walked along to Merstone, passing under the old bridge on the way:
We then walked along to Blackwater, and onto a stretch of the path that we walk at least once a week, back to Shide, in Newport.
We saw lots of friendly cyclists along the way, all out enjoying the sunshine - and some other characters, too:
 
Mum also saw a fox, but he was too sneaky for her to get a picture of.
We need to do lots of practice of longer walks in the next few weeks - mum says her feet ache, and the path today was flat; goodness knows how she will get on along the Tennyson Trail, which is very hilly.
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