Well, we’re in the final stretch for Holy Week. Lent is nearly over. Easter is around the corner. And it’s time for “Eric’s Newslets” once again (see my post of March 14 for my first newslets post.)
- The day I posted my last post about the dog, I arrived home and found the my passport had arrived! All the stress and worry about it turned out to be for naught. I’m going to England as Eric Louis Hays-Strom!
- Ixchel seems to have recuperated from her little fright, so that much is good!
- The weather did not remain quite so ‘summer-like’ as my last post indicated. We had more hot days, of course, and some chilly ones. But the chilly ones are appropriate to this year. Monday this week, though, our bedroom was 90 degrees at bed time! EEeeeeyuck! And of course, I slept fitfully, so the dogs tricked me into taking them out at 3:30 am, and that meant I couldn’t fall asleep again because over night the temperature started dropping. So I had to close the windows because it was getting COLD in the room… and when I closed the windows a BAT flew out of the curtain and hit my arm. So then I lay awake worrying about the bat. But eventually I fell asleep.
- Related to the first news item, Scott and I are busy drawing up plans for our trip to England! So far, I’m going to a wedding, on a pub crawl, to see Sweeney Todd, then to Cornwall, with stops at Avesbury and Stonehenge. Maybe up to Ipswitch (that one is on again/off again.)
Guess that’s the end of the little newsy stories. There’s one other thing. Over the years I’ve been interested in walking… going back now over 7 or 8 years. I get really into it, and then slow down, then don’t bother for a while, then get back into it. I always like the way I feel when I’m “into” walking. You may recall a couple of years ago, when I first got my job at DOTCOMM, I got into a challenge with some of my friends… we never finished it. It petered out.
Well, I’m back to walking again. But no challenges this time. At least none that my friends can participate in. I’ve decided to challenge myself. I am going to see how long it takes me to walk from Point Lobos, San Francisco, CA to Boston, MA. Then I’ll hop over the Atlantic, and walk from Land’s End, Sennen, UK to John O’Groats, Scotland. And then, I’ll mysteriously appear in Brest, France, and walk across Europe to the Pacific, and then from the north of Japan to the south.
And I’ll walk all those miles… 13,735 miles, to be exact… without ever leaving the US! It’s a virtual walk! Then, when I realized how long that’ll take, I decided to include all the miles I have walked since the beginning of my challenge in 2010. In the past 2 years, then, I’ve walked from Point Lobos in San Francisco all the way to Marion, SD. Yeah, I thought I’d take the more northern route offered me by maps.google.com. Just out of curiosity, though, I checked in to see how far that would be if I’d come out I80… I’d be in Seward today. That’s 1,634 miles.
Now, if I walk 2.75 miles per day, on average, I should get to the end of my destination by April 22, 2024. I can do that, right?
Hello? HELLO?!?!? Huh, I think I lost everyone…
On The Road II 