The Way proved to be hot & muggy once again that later day, as I set out once more to walk yet another long night through. And yet what I didn’t know at the time was that this particular stretch of roadway was going to be almost completely water-less from the get go, with my […]
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I was in the town of Oneida on this day, and despite the heat and my aching feet I steadily hobbled up the entire 2-mile length of the town’s main strip, first stopping briefly at the local Taco Bell. I was incredibly tired at this point – so tired that I ended up falling asleep […]
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It had been a long and arduous (though admittedly also often quite peaceful) 18-mile stroll along the mostly shoulder-less (and yet for many midnight hours, almost completely untrafficked) Highway 27 – all the way to the small town of Sunbright; a town that essentially consisted of a post office, a small library, a Dollar General […]
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I sat for quite some time on this day in the shade on the truck-stop side of a gas station – not really even interested in asking for a ride further up the road; just thankful to be sitting in calm out of the heat. And there I sat quite peacefully for quite a few […]
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The following morning I woke (again, after over eleven straight hours of gloriously sound sleep) and somehow knew in my most profound depths of being that I was indeed going to continue my Walk – that I was going to do whatever I had to do to get as far as I could for Peace; […]
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I was not doing well at all on this particular day – the temperatures were simply too hot and the Sun was simply too glaring and the traffic was simply too aggressive and my satchel was simply too heavy. And so it was that I indeed started to break down – both physically & emotionally […]
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In the beginning of my Walk – and for quite a few days thereafter – the long and the short of it all was essentially this: It was HOT – HOT when I departed back on the evening of August 29th – super HOT – crazy HOT – hot & super MUGGY to boot. And […]
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My dear Friends, I once again have some GREAT NEWS to share – for I am once again about to set out on my next great Peace Pilgrimage! This will be the 6th such trek I undertake, and this one promises to be the most “radical” adventure yet – walking with “only the clothes on […]
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