I am not called Truman

I wake up. There's a cameraman in my study. His name is Dimitri. He is going to be filming everything this week. And next week. He and Peter, another filmy chap, are making a documentary about BoardFree. 13 months ago I'd never been on a longboard. This is bizarre.

It's Christmas everyday. If it's not a press article or a radio interview, it's an exciting parcel or an inspiring message from a stranger. Yesterday this popped into my inbox:

"I am learning all about you and your trip at school. I just wanted to say good luck and hope you do it." - Rupert Butcher, Year 2, Rooksbury Park School

This morning I went to the Footbed Clinic in Swansea. Chris Sharp is an expert in feet, and he had agreed to be filmed giving me advice and preparing a new set of customised insoles for my brand new shoes (sponsored by www.vapourised.com!). I wasn't fully prepared for my visit to the Footbed. Last week I spoke to Chris and he said he was just going to be sorting out my insoles. Instead, perhaps driven on by the focus of the video camera, he asked me to strip off so he could monitor my footstrike - in laymans terms, the way I walk and how that will effect me during the upcoming journeys. "Strip down" he said, and I though to myself, 'oh, I've got some minging yellow boxer shorts on which are creased to buggery.'

So there I was, walking on this treadmill with three cameras aimed at my thighs, pelvis and calves, and Dimitri stalking around trying to get a nice angle. In front of the treadmill was a big mirror and I looked at myself, naked bar some disgusting yellow boxers which were covered in old paint because one day in the past I was painting my house and it was hot. I was embarrassed, and I will do my utmost to ensure that the pants don't make the telly.

It is now ten to nine in the evening. Tomorrow is going to consist of interviews and packing. Elsa has been stripped down to the bare minimum in preparation to be covered with sponsor stickers. Mark @ www.fluid.concept.co.uk sent me through an old longboard traction pad which is soon to replace the old 'BoardFree' grip tape on Elsa's standing platform, and the Sunrisers from www.skateboardheadlights.com came as well, ready to light the UK path - funky super cool blinking red taillights, just special. Oh, and the bearings from www.octanesport.com, we're rolling baby.

But today's coup de grace was yet another piece of good news from www.vwmagazine.co.uk. Pictures of our van logo'd up to the hilt!! How freaking cool! And they're getting loads of mugs put together so we can sell them on the road. Stars! I tell you what, it refreshes your belief in humanity when people give something up for a cause that they really would have been able to ignore. Thank you doesn't say enough.