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 day in nebraska. clouds obscured the sky when we arrived at the starting point, and lightning lit up the skies to the south, revealing a 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 saw, i think i would have virtually identical thousands. if not for a week of electrical storm delays in rainy nebraska i would have negative 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 is endless. the horizon the sand hills the kindness the state the storms. the day was further complicated by no fewer than 5 law enforcement 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 have walked in freezing wind and rain and we have walked in hot wind… even a stretch of dead calm and hot air. right now Read more…
i have been sitting here for over an hour now. the rain just keeps pouring down. i have to say this is not funny anymore. this radar stuff is really cool. we were able to walk right up to the last second before the deluge hit. but it has become a daily torment to see that it is not raining ANYWHERE ELSE! seriously. if we were a few miles north or a few miles south Read more…
july 24 day 76 24 miles total 1,982 typical nebraska. we left the room under clear skies. an hour later we hit the road with thunderstorms raging all around. miraculously i got one raindrop all night but it wasn’t for lack of visible plumes of rain keeping us on our toes. we got no rain but starting in the notorious nebraska sand marshes we encountered clouds of mosquitoes like i have never seen. the whine Read more…
quite a light show all around and plenty of rain…. but we slipped through the cracks this time
july 23 day 75 27 miles total 1,958 my hopes for the day were not too high. an hour each way to lodging left me with only 12 hours to walk. at the pace i have been going i would only get 24 miles. i was encouraged to get 13 in the first 6 hours. i skipped my break and ate lunch on the move. 26 is under my new goal of 26.2 or better Read more…