For the end of day 6 I chose Chinnor. This was because the Ridgeway runs quite close and there is a road going in the direction of Nuffield although I thought that I would need two or three lifts. There was no chance of public transport. I started walking out of Chinnor and had walked about 2 miles before someone stopped to offer me a lift. He was only going to the M40 but I was grateful. At the M40 I stood and thumbed to no avail then decided to walk some more. After another couple of miles I stopped and decided to have my sandwiches as I contemplated what to do. I could not walk to the start, then do the Ridgeway and the extra mile back to the car. It would have been about twenty one miles of walking. I tried all the taxi numbers which I had brought with me but none was available until the evening which was too late. I was thinking that I would have to shorten the walk and just do a small part of the Ridgeway and fill in the gap another day. I did not want to do this as I wanted to walk the entire route in order. I was still thumbing a lift as I eat my sandwiches and I noticed that a car had stopped behind me. I ran down and the driver said he was trying to reverse to pick me up but there was too much traffic. We moved all the clutter into the back (with the wolf hound). The driver said that he had hitch-hiked several thousand miles in his younger days and that he owed a lot of miles. We got talking and he was on his way to Bodmin, Cornwall but not on any motorways. I explained where I needed to get to, and he went out of his way to drop me at the disused pub'. I left him to have his lunch and I set off. I'll always remember the dog sticking his head up through the sun-roof as we were going along.
I walked back under the M40 motorway, passed a nature reserve with lots of primroses. The last few miles to Chinnor were on hard baked chalky clay which was also a Bridleway so was rather uneven. I finished the section and walked back to the car having walked about 15 miles that day.