Taking A Walk

Walking Down US Highway 11 - Winchester, Virginia to Louisiana

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Hold Everything - Visit the Dentist

September 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

by Dwayne Phillips
While chewing some raisins Saturday morning, a tooth fell out of my mouth.
What? Yes, a tooth fell out of my mouth. A crowned tooth broke from its meager roots and fell out.
I was fortunate to find a dentist in Reston, Virginia. She had bad news and good news. The bad news was that [...]

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Tags: Fairfax County

Day Two - November 12, 2007

September 6th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Fairfax County · Loudon County · Virginia

Day 001 - September 8, 2007

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Fairfax County · Virginia