Taking A Walk

Walking Down US Highway 11 – Winchester, Virginia to Louisiana

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Natural Bridge (Virginia)

January 15th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes you are right at something, but you cannot see it. Then you tell people that the thing isn’t there. Then you learn later that you were standing on it. Then, well I don’t know what happens then. Such is Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County Virginia (the county is of course named […]

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Walking Up the Hill

January 13th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Pulaski, Virginia – It is a nice small city with a population of about 10,000 people. I remember walking in from the north (as the road goes). There was the Volkswagen van parking lot. I never figured out what that was. I also remember a large furniture factory that had been closed. […]

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But How did You…Logistics Part Zero

January 11th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips My wife Karen accompanied me for the first half of the walk – Reston, Virginia to Chattanooga, Tennessee. She drove our car and walked much of the way as well. The basic scheme was: Karen drops me at Point A Karen drives the car to Point B and parks it there I […]

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Sometimes It Wasn’t Much Fun

January 9th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips No, it wasn’t always fun. There were the times… Loud windy days on the four-lane road – This was mostly in Tennessee, but there was one afternoon in Alabama as well. People drive faster on a four-lane divided highway than they do on a two-lane road. Much of the wind experienced while […]

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Great Meals: Fatz

December 24th, 2009 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Dublin Virginia is a small town. It sits fairly close to Interstate 81. There are four or five motels there by the Interstate as well as fast food restaurants and the usual Golden Mile things. One of those restaurants is Fatz. Fatz is a chain, I guess a national chain but not […]

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Libraries

December 13th, 2009 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I like libraries. In 1980, I hated libraries. I walked past half a dozen libraries in 1,100 miles. Four stay in my mind. I guess I never saw the library in Collinsville, Alabama. It hadn’t yet officially opened. It is in my mind as the town was having a “quilt walk” to […]

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A Lost Place

December 4th, 2009 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I still cannot find it. I know I saw it early in the walk, so it must be in the northern section of the Shenandoah Valley. It seems like it was north of Harrisonburg, Virginia. I went looking for it one day, but I didn’t find it. It still haunts me. It […]

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Visited by a Friend

December 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips It was in the early afternoon on a sunny day in Southern Virginia. I was walking through a construction area on Route 11. There were flagmen and the usual slow downs and stops in traffic. That is quite annoying while walking. A regular flow of traffic is much more relaxing. I thought […]

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Inexplicable Buildings

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips It was a hot, sunny day in Northern Alabama. I was walking along in the late morning, soaked as usual with perspiration caused by the heat and humidity. There was a little house to the left. I guess it had a bedroom or two with maybe 500 square feet of living area. […]

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Great Meals: El Peurto

December 1st, 2009 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We were in Wytheville, Virginia (pronounced with-ville or as the young woman in the motel lobby said “wee-ith-vee-ill”).  Our motel was tucked in an odd corner of a street just off Route 11 and Interstate 81. Sort of around the corner next to a traffic light was this little Mexican Restaurant called […]

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