Drive up the dale

I went for a drive today was thinking about going for a walk but my original idea when I decided I wanted a day off was to go for the drive I did today. My drive is tracked above it was 67 miles. The map above is tiny, click on it for a bigger version. Normally I use a more detailed map but that's no good for 60+ miles the image would be huge.

Anyway I drove up to Tunstall, over to Bollihope then on up to Allenheads, there was still a bit of snow at the sides of the roads and ice on the road. Then when coming back down the dale when I got to Westgate I decided to cut up the back road to Rookhope again. The road is quite narrow and when I was at the highest point there was snow on the road and it was very icy.

It took me 2 hours to drive this, because for once I drove slow and obeyed all the speed limits. although for some reason the GPS seams to of thought I did 109 mph at one point. Normally yes but nowhere near that today never even got to 70mph.

I was intending to take some pictures but it was very overcast and grey, not much good for photographs. I did take 2, you can see what I mean about it being grey.

Both picures above are taken between Rookhope and Allenheads, you can see the start of where the snow begins. There was more further on, I should of come up here a week ago it would of been more fun trying to drive then :-)

The whole reason I took the day off and drove around here was because I wanted to do some thinking. I did but instead of going through the things I was intending to ideas kept popping into my head instead. I will post some of those later!!

So I never really did sort out what was on my mind but I do feel better after a bit more sleep over the weekend, must be getting somewhere near back to normal if I'm coming up with ideas again.

Just been told off by a mate for sitting at a computer on my day off, gonna have a cup of tea then go for a walk as they ordered me to do!!