july 28 day 80 28 miles total 2,086 back in rushville they told me the farmers might pay me to come back if i brought so much rain. by chandler they were ready to pay me to leave. the ground was saturated plowed fields were washing away dirt roads had Read more…
july 28 i stepped into wyoming. it was a fitting end to my time in nebrainska a continuous crash and roar of thunder shook the hills while bolts of lightning flew about willy nilly. thick trunks of electricity were hammering the ground all around. gale force gusts of wind knocked Read more…
july 27 day 79 27 miles total 2,058 it is nebraska. so it was raining when i got up. but it stopped by the time i was ready! things started out well for me. but poor harold was stuck driving a short distance behind me until daylight. i had smiled Read more…
near crawford nebraska heavy rain last night raining all around this morning. it never ends!
july 26 day 78 27 miles total 2,031 it will go down as a narrow win over the “marathon” a day average i am now striving to beat. it felt like a miraculous salvation of a day that teetered on the brink of disaster. it started out as just another Read more…
76 days 7 hours 27 minutes and 30 seconds after wetting my feet in the atlantic ocean at brenton point in newport rhode island i reached 2,000 miles just west of rushville nebraska. if it weren’t for the 5 hour delay this morning for the biggest electrical storm i ever Read more…
july 25 day 77 22 miles total 2,004 the mileage was disappointing. but we spent 5 hours huddled in the car during the most impressive electrical storm i have ever watched. staying in the car was not a matter of not getting wet. it was about survival. everything in nebraska Read more…
we have been eking out miles between storms but this has been a wild ride tonight. we have been watching as many as 4 big electrical storms at a time all around us. at one point a storm was rolling towards us with a ground strike every 5 seconds. we Read more…