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The ADT East in 10, Midwest Beginnings
For the last 10 days and counting I’ve been averaging 20-25 miles per day, but I’ve clocked 23-25 on more than half of those days. Tonight I stopped at 24, but only because I found a sheltered opportunity to fully charge my batteries after days of tossing twenty percent on my phone in a bathroom or wherever I could manage before re-hitting the trail with a feverish urgency…
Notes from the Field: Along the Buckeye Trail Towards Cincinnati
54 days and counting on the American Discovery Trail: I crossed the bridge from Parkersburg, West Virginia into Belpree, Ohio late in the evening as the sun was setting. I knew camping might be a tad sketchy that night, but I had a package to pick up at the post office…
Reflections and Moments: The (Low) Highlands of West Virginia
One month and counting on The American Discovery Trail: This walk turned one month old just a few days ago. As I sit tonight on a bed in the motel I just checked into, a 22 mile day 34 is just behind me. I’ve walked 520 miles total and 440 of those in the first month. I walked into Bridgeport, West Virginia tonight on blown out shoes and sore feet, stores recently closed and the next opportunity too many miles away...
Delaware, DC and the C&O
Days 4-15 on the American Discovery Trail By the end of day three I was anxious to get out and get walking again. It had been raining all day and I had the fortune of a dry place to stay.
The ADT: Days 1-3 in Delaware
What a privilege and blessing to have, somewhat by accident, walked into Cape Henlopen in the middle of the night under a nearly full moon. The beauty, the solitude, the undiluted or convoluted auditorium of nature quite appropriate for the journey I’m about to take...
The ADT: Reflections Aboard an Eastbound Train
For days now I’ve been pacing about my sister’s living room, passing time…just passing. The rise—the fall; the tick—the tok…time passing. For the most part my affairs are in order, that is, the mess packed away in a box (both symbolic and literally!). In a lot of ways that’s how this feels, as I now sit in an upper deck seat staring out the window of an eastbound train...
The ADT: On the Eve
The truth is I’m a lot of things, insincere not amongst them. For what it’s worth, with me you get me as I am. I know the course I’m about to walk, the challenges I am certain to face...
American Discovery Trail: Imminent Departure!
No worries, I feel like the hardest part is over (he says in that gasping for breath, laughing sort of way!). After all, I made an absolute decision that will impact every second of every day for the foreseeable future. I made that decision, as I often do, in an instant.