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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 36
Our 15 miles of fame from Evansville print and television media extended further. As we continued on roads through this stretch people hailed us from passing cars, from workplaces we passed and even from a graveyard (a live person visiting … 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 31
The day after the potluck supper at the St. Paul UCC in Hermann, Jack and Pat Wendleton brought us back to where we left off on the Katy, treating us to breakfast at a trailside restaurant. We hiked back to … 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 25
We entered Kansas from the southwest corner and would be departing through Kansas City, near the northeast corner. Since much of Kansas originally was partitioned into square tracts of farmland, this meant a zigzag pattern of hiking east and north … Continue reading
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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The ADT Journey – Week 23
A passing motorist stopped to warn us about a coming storm, in defiance of the red sky that greeted our first evening in Kansas, allegedly an indicator of “sailor’s delight” and good weather. Dusk found us chatting with a rancher … Continue reading
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The ADT Journey – Week 21
We took a rest day in Pueblo. I had hoped to present at a college in the city and get publicity from the local news sources, but neither happened. Instead, the tone for what would happen during our journey across … Continue reading
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The ADT Journey – Week 16
We left Crested Butte packed for a five day stretch that would bring us to Leadville, the highest town in the United States. Already while hiking in Colorado we met more people than in the whole states of Nevada and … Continue reading
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