RedDevil - congrats on your healthy changes. (How did you know when you're having a mini stroke? Symptoms?)
A couple of summers ago I was on a bike ride and met a guy pulling a little wagon with a sign on it: "Walking the full length of the St. Lawrence River". 1197 km. We chatted for a while - recently retired civil servant, doing the walk in 3 or 4 'chunks' as his summer holiday/adventures. Very interesting guy.
One of my favourite blogs (not really a blog) is by Paul Salopek, an American journalist walking around the world, along the route of pre/historic human migration out of Africa all the way to South America. He's in year 6 or 7 now, and has been documenting it for National Geographic:
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/p...-of-eden-walk/ Really good writer.