And it was relatively soon thereafter that I found myself walking & walking & walking through another increasingly muggy afternoon (a mugginess brought on by temperatures that were for whatever reason not one bit diminished by the steady rainfall that gently soaked me for the first hour or so of that day’s journey). In truth, […]
My new knee brace actually helped quite a bit with the pain I had been experiencing (pain which was now persistently occasional but no longer sharp or shooting) and I eventually made my way through the night to Sellersburg (napping surprisingly well alongside the road at various spots along the way).. And it was here […]
Things weren’t getting any better as I sloooooooowly made my way down Highway 60W (which at some point had turned into Frankfort Ave), all the way through Louisville towards the Ohio River. In truth, things got so bad at one point that a super-spiesig coffee shop owner (in a place called Caffe Classico) dismissed me […]
I eventually came to the initial outskirts of the great city of Louisville, and here is where my Walk truly began to fall apart. Yes, there had been a number of very difficult days tread beforehand, and a number of challenging trials that I had been able to transcend as well, and yet Highway 60W […]
It became quickly clear to me that Highway 60W – a road with frequent traffic and little shade and no stable shoulders to speak of – was without doubt a highway that should only be walked in the very dead of night. And yet I was already well on my way that morning by the […]
I had been dropped off by kind-hearted Jimmy at the Panera in Frankfort that morning*, and I waited there awhile to get started – eventually hitting The Road at around 9am. And this later start was anything but recommendable, seeing as how it was already a true scorcher of a day, even at that early […]
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