Taking A Walk

by Dwayne Phillips
Today we walked through the village of Fairfield, Virginia (that’s what their sign read - “village”). That was the only town or village or anything we transited). We covered about 13 miles. Rain was forecast, but except for some drizzle in the morning, we were dry.
The three miles north of Fairfield and the [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
Today was overcast and cool - 53 to 66 degrees F. Perfect for walking. We covered 14 miles of mostly rural and then all city. We went through the wide places in the road of Mauzy, Lacey Spring (not springs), and Melrose before walking through Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Mauzy has a general store that wasn’t [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
Karen and I walked from Purcellville to Berryville, Virginia. Purcellville is in Loudon County while Berryville is the county seat of Clarke County. This is 15 miles and took six hours of walking.
Here is a photo of the Clarke County Courthouse in Berryville.
This walk was all done on Route 7. This was [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
This day was farther back on the calendar than I remember.
Karen walked with me and we traversed the W&OD trail (this links to the Friends of the W&OD and this links to the Wikipedia article on it) from Virginia Route 28 into the town of Leesburg, Virginia. This took us out of Fairfax [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
First surprise - it doesn’t seem like almost a year ago that I did my first steps on this walk, but my records show that to be the case. I walked four days widely separated by the calendar as kind of a warm up. This wasn’t so much a physical warm-up, but more [...]

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