It poured on us for most of our walk todsy and it was beautiful. Once again, we were soaked from the waist down all day long but the air felt so cool that neither of us really cared. At one point I was making my way across a particularly large and deep puddle and time…
We are in Wangdian Township now and once again formally acquainted with the local police. We went to check into a hotel and the lady that was at the reception desk asked me to bring our passports and to follow her. I thought maybe we were going to a place to photo copy them but…
As of today at 4:00 we are officially 50.3% through our journey and we have walked a total of 576 miles. We now have 37 days left to walk another 570 miles. I just saw on the English language news channel that today marks the official last day of spring and the first day of…
We had planned to be walking by 4:30 am but when the alarm went off this morning at 4:00, we could hear that it was pouring rain outside so we went back to bed for 3 more hours. We slept from 7:00 pm to 7:00 am! We started walking at a little before 8:00 am…
Yesterday was brutally hot. It didn’t matter that we started walking at 5:30 am. By 10:30 it was stifling. By 11:30 it was unbearable. This morning we were up at 3:00 am and on the road by 3:36. But guess what. It was still 84 degrees out! We walked in the dark and the heat…
It is too hot and humid here. My weather app says actual temperature is 94 but the “feels like” temperature is 102. Combined with the humidity it’s just too much and potentially even dangerous. So tomorrow we are getting up at 3:00 am, plan to be walking by 3:30 am and be finished and in…
Just last night I was telling Doug that I needed to find some tape. I’ve lost a little weight and now the hip belt on my back pack doesn’t tighten as much as I need it to. I bought 2 hand towels and I folded them in thirds and then thirds again and put them…
Today was a lot of downhill walking with a little up hill mixed in. We lost 2500 feet in elevation. Gone are all the fields of corn and tiered paddies of rice. They have been replaced by hillsides full of towering banana plants with broad leaves that look shady and inviting but are always off…
Is there a hotel in the next 7 kilometers? There wasn’t.
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