Which is what I’m doing now as I get back on the road to meet the next candidate who is 51 miles away.
It’s a journey that will take an hour and a half over Bannau Brycheiniog to the edge of the western Beacons to Tairgwaith.
The village is named after three cottages, Tai’r Gwaith (the works’ houses) that were built for pit officials when the first colliery was sunk here during the 1830s.
Opencast mining replaced the deep pits all over this area, they too have now closed and there are plans to open a centre for water sports in the lake that was created at the former East Pit site.
The scars of industry are clear to see across Tawe Nedd and there are clear inequalities in terms of employment and health.
“It doesn’t matter how big this is,” Welsh Labour’s lead candidate, Mahaboob Basha, tells me.
“Reaching the community, talking to them, listening to them and supporting them, that is what Welsh Labour values rest in.”