Day 123
Not the friendliest road I’ve traveled
July 27th, 2010
I'm walking across America.
That's the idea, at least. I'm walking westward from New York City for nine months or so. If everything goes according to plan, I'll be in Oregon when the clock runs out. If nothing goes according to plan, maybe I'll end up in Peru or Mongolia or Pennsylvania. You can read all about the details of my trip if you're so inclined.
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Here's my progress so far:
That’s probably worse then the rumble strips….
Is anybody else having a problem when you click on the picture? Sometimes it says page not found then shows some guys walking. Whats up with that? Wow I think I was first ha ha…. :)
Saun,
sometimes the pic isn’t loaded all the way yet and we click on it to soon. That’s why it comes up funny sometimes. Just wait a minute and it clears up because the pic finishes loading all the way.
Thanks Dorinda where is Mentor, Oh?
Never mind I did a mapquest way up northeast. I’m in Dayton
I’ve been down that way. We came down to a tiny town a little Northwest of Dayton, Piqua and some other one starts with a “c” and right now I can’t remember it. My son has some online friends down there and we went down to meet them and visit. Very nice down there.
Thanks I’ve never been to Mentor. Is it Covington?
Saun in Ohio-
Are you smoking some of that wakky weed? Just kidding.
I have not had that problem. Maybe you have a hacker walking in your computer.
Ha ha Don, wacky weed no, margarita yes…. maybe I should run a scan….. :)
No need to run a scan Saun it’s happened to several of us. It’s what happens like I said above. The picture loading isn’t completed yet but we can see the pics and when we click on them too soon we get the error message or that video of Al Pacino walking down the side walk. It’s weird but that’s what’s happening. If it’s never happened to Don he’s just to slow. Sorry Don.
Dorinda
There you are sharing the LOVE AGAIN. I love it! HOBO NATION members walking al over each other! No pun intended – it was a natural.
Hey – those guys you see walking are from the move “Midnight Cowboy” – Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight!
darn – move = MOVIE!
Oh are they? Thanks. I just took a guess at who it was. silly me. Thanks Candice.
May I suggest that we all need to get organized … Matt’s going to be on the Oregon coast before we know it … we should organize to greet him and celebrate his great feat … but we need to coordinate our thinking/plans … I’m willing to be a clearinghouse at paul.larsen@stanfordalumni.org … or will happily support someone else who would like to do this … let’s get this together!
Paul
Some is taken care of already. Rockaway has been notified and they are expecting him. His family will be there as others from here will be too. If you’d like you can contact the chamber of commerce in Rockaway Beach, OR and see what they’ve got going on. But I know they’ve been contacted. And doesn’t mean that you still can’t do something. Good luck.
I just talked to my husband and he is all for being there when Matt gets to Rockaway. I guess it depends on his arrival date. Rockaway is probably about an hour & a half from my house, so a relatively quick trip. :) I’ll e-mail you Paul and we’ll see how this goes.
On the plus side, there’s probably not a lot of traffic here…
Looks like the roads we would run barefoot as kids! Ah, good times!
Pretty bumpy there huh. Makes it hard to push the cart on something like that. Hope it didn’t go on too long for you.
bumpity bump bump over the hills we go….bumpity bump bump…..
Have not heard that lyric in many a year!
This kind of road will slow Matt down.
I will call Washington DC tomorrow and talk to the ROAD CZAR to see if we can get some some STIMULUS money sent over tomorrow so we can get the roads patched for Matt. This is unacceptable under any terms.
Can’t be fun for Matt with these kind of road condtions!
Nothing wrong with slowing down every now and then :) I plan on doing a little slowing down myself this weekend on roads just as bad or worse. They keep the rif-raf and weekend warriors in their monster rv’s out of the good spots!
All those rocks makes for hard walking and pushing… you really had to be careful not to trip…. so extra lifting of the feet…. more work for your body… like I said before a rest day soon…
That’s why they call them the “Rockies”.
@Candice in Alabama……….HAAAA!
The first thing I saw was a heart, made by that large rock…
:)
Me, too, the heart! My bro. lives on Soft Rock Road in MT, never see any good ones like that heart there!
Heck, this is how half of the interstates look in Michigan.
John
Come to TN. Our interstates are rated in the top 3 of the nation. Maybe because 75 and 40 both cross through our state. In fact 75 and 40 converge in Knoxville less than 25 miles from where I live. A lot of truck traffic.
MI has been hit about as hard as any state economically. It has to be tough their now.
Good luck to you.
Don