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The ADT Journey – Week 37
We depended on Ky to slackpack us along this stretch where we stayed at a church, a hotel and two homes. Usually, our stays at people’s homes occurred from us meeting them, such as our last stay in the home … Continue reading
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The ADT Journey – Week 35
The “trail” for this week was all roads, from Shawneetown, Illinois to Newburgh, Indiana. We encountered scenic moments when our route came next to the Ohio River in Evansville and Newburgh, but otherwise the only memorable part of the “trail” … Continue reading
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The ADT Journey – Week 33
After we endured our coldest night of the journey, clear skies and increasingly warm weather blessed our thirty-third week of hiking, though we still witnessed the effects of the misty, rainy Missouri weather as we walked along the floodplains of … Continue reading
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The ADT Journey – Week 32
After our talk at the St. John UCC, Ky flew back home to be with family for almost a week while we continued on. All our hosts through this St. Louis stretch lived far off the trail and Ky left … Continue reading
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The ADT Journey – Week 30
The pastor of the UCC in Boonville, Julia Fiocco, and her husband Larry Jones hosted us at the start of this stretch. While our presence midweek prevented us from attending a service, the Advent season found us participating in a … Continue reading
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The ADT Journey – Week 29
As soon as we entered Missouri the terrain felt more like back home. The hills became a little more rolling, the riverbanks a little more chiseled and the trees thick enough to be called a forest. No one would mistake … Continue reading
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The ADT Journey – Week 28
Back when we first entered Kansas, Gretchen Davis sent us an itinerary of speaking engagements and people hosting us for the days we would spend around Kansas City. We met Gretchen and her husband Ardie in Frisco, Colorado because of … Continue reading
The ADT Journey – Week 27
For the long distance hikes lasting that long, Thanksgiving always treated me spectacularly. In 1977 few people had yet to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, with our group of four being among the first one hundred. The number finishing at … Continue reading
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The ADT Journey – Week 26
From our perspective Kansas can be divided in halves with McPherson serving as the point of delineation. Flat plains, sparse natural vegetation and frequent cloudless skies characterized southwest Kansas; “rolling hills,” some natural vegetation and cloudy skies outnumbering cloudless skies … Continue reading
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The ADT Journey – Week 24
The week started with a rest day in Cimarron to wait out a snowstorm. We stayed at the Cimarron Hotel, the same place where the original team that mapped out the ADT stayed to also wait out a wintry storm. … Continue reading
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