My name is Jessica. In July 2022, I set off from my mother's house in Weston-super-Mare on a mission to walk to Greece. My plan was to walk 6,000km continuously and arrive on the island of Ithaka in July 2023. But in October, I got cold. So I paused for the winter, to resume in the spring. My pause has taken me on all sorts of modes of transport I hadn't intended to take and to all sorts of places I hadn't intended to go. But that is the nature of an odyssey, and I have surrendered to the path.

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But the reasons for my walk aren't about walking and athleticism and endurance. Walking just happens to be the mode of being and transport I had chosen for this lightfoot odyssey. Because, above all, my lightfoot odyssey is an eco-pilgrimage. It is my response to more than a decade of utter helplessness as I consider my place in this age of of ecological destruction. It is my attempt to create distance between myself and the temptations of modern 'developed' society. From this peripheral space, half nomad, half participant, I hope that I can learn to consume differently - that I can end my dependency on the now socially accepted global systems that exploit the natural environment and other humans.  And, as a restless seeker, I have chosen to live this epicurean quest from the road. And, as much as possible, using my own two legs to move me. 

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