Thursday, November 6, 2008

Speaking of exercise, I read "A Walk in the Woods" by Bryson, about his attempt to walk the Appalachian trail. That's about as close as I got to exercising.

Not really. I went to healthquest a week before election, and walked all over clarion and Eagle Grove, running up to houses. Sometimes talking, but usually just leaving literature. Our county is very republican, but initial counts showed that Obama only trailed McCain by 100 votes. I'm hopeful for our nation with his Leadership. I'm listening to "the Audacity of Hope" that I downloaded from Our Library website onto an mp3 (as I do dishes and drive).

I'll work gathering veggies tomorrow, from a hoop house, despite (predicted) snow outside.

I better get in shape for the Living History Farms event the weekend before Thanksgiving. it's 7 miles. It goes down through a creek as an option. Our whole family is going to Des Moines for this.

I would like to do a little bit of the Appalachian trail sometime... This is an urge I got a long time ago. Highschool? any body game to come along? The trouble is, we'd have to get equipment. The "Walk in the Woods" book was funny, and somewhat educational about the history of the trail, National park system, smoldering coal that ruined towns, hotels built in the middle of nowhere as vacation destinations (great gatsby time?), soon to be abandoned. The funny part was his perspective on the friend who went with him.

Becky

2 comments:

  1. Becky,

    I think making a go of the Appalachian Trail would be a worthwhile undertaking. It would be nice to do it in one of the warm seasons..

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  2. How kind of you, Trale! Yeah, I'd pick June/July/August/Sept/Oct. Would you start in Maine, or Georgia, or in the middle somewhere?

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