Reply sent, jenhunt.
I have just realised it is 4 years, pretty much to the day, since we (well, ok, Deano and CrinklyLion) started these.
I don't think I would have even gotten back out on my bike, that year, if they hadn't. Instead I have lots of great (and small) adventures, become a local in a pub many miles away* and seen sights, on my own doorstep, that are enough to make you gasp**.
*though, not as far away as Clarion's local is to him!
**being shadowed by an owl or a bat, seeing fields of corn glowing in moonlight, being scared half to death by a deer jumping out of a hedgeback, having a pint too many and running into a telegraph post before I had even gotten out of the pub car park.