Fall Asleep as a Medieval Sheep Drover Walking England’s Great Roads

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Fall asleep as a medieval sheep drover and spend weeks walking the green roads of England with hundreds of sheep, a pair of dependable dogs, and an increasingly complicated relationship with the weather.

Tonight, you’ll cross rolling hills, muddy lanes, rivers, villages, and market towns while keeping the flock together, finding places to graze, paying tolls, sleeping wherever shelter can be found, and protecting every coin of profit along the way. The work is slow, physical, and su...