august 6 day 89 28 miles total 2,219 crossing the high desert the past few days i came up with a strategy to keep myself focused. every mile marker i checked my time and restarted my watch. the goal; break 30 minuets. every time i break 30 minuets the extra Read more…
august 5 day 88 27 miles total 2,291 nothing drives home the sheer foolishness of this enterprise like walking 100 miles of empty desert between cities. i really am the dumbest old man in america. my new “cause” for the walk; i just went out to buy some chocolate milk, Read more…
august 4 day 87 27 miles total 2,265 we were talking about lions in africa yesterday. talk tends to cover a variety of topics out on the road. i had read an article about hunting being restricted to the old lions, past their prime. that doesn’t effect the breeding population… Read more…
august 3 day 86 27 miles total 2,238 it just goes to show you never know. i would never have guessed that fires in california would become a major obstacle in wyoming. but the smoke and elevation combination hit me pretty hard this morning. a rainstorm knocked down the smoke Read more…
august 2 day 85 26 miles total 2,211 the story of the day is one that has been building for several days. smoke from the california wildfires has cast a haze over everything. it burns my eyes and doesn’t make the air any more breathable. otherwise things went pretty well Read more…
aug 1 day 84 25 miles total 2,185 wyoming. up until wyoming i had a plan for how to handle every state. those plans have been executed with varying success, ranging from the catastrophe that was iowa to the perfect execution across upstate new york. for wyoming my only plan Read more…
july 31 day 83 25 miles (maybe 27) total 2,160 there is not time to describe the incredible day. constant wildlife: speed goats (pronghorn), elk, mule deer…wyomians. lots of practice climbing steep hills at elevation i am getting stronger and acclimating surviving lots of gravel not the cruel sioux quartzite Read more…
july 30 day 82 26 miles total 2,135 the morning started great walking from my room instead of driving clear skies instead of rain… it took about a mile to top 5,260 feet elevation. and most of the day would be spent higher than that. i said wyoming had its Read more…