Taking A Walk

by Dwayne Phillips You know them. They are the most dreaded signs you can see while on the road: CONSTRUCTION AHEAD The road will shrink from two lanes to one. Sometimes the one-lane road stretches for a mile or more. Men with flags stand on the ends of the one-lane road. One man stops traffic […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Walking all day is tiring. That isn’t so surprising. Simply standing on your feet, having your legs support your weight, these muscles only take so much. After enough hours, I am tired. There are other situations on the road that increase fatigue. Rain is one; cold is another, and another is the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips It was a Friday. I had walked (and ridden the bicycle) 18 miles in the heat. It was 80 degrees at 6 AM and 95 at 3 PM when I stopped a few miles outside of Meridian, Mississippi. I had gone through the last few miles of Western Alabama and entered Mississippi. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I walked 1,100 miles; that was about 65 days of walking. I hurt a lot during those days. About day 60 of walking I figured out what causes walking pain. I am not stupid; I can learn, maybe not fast, but I do learn. My wife and I started walking in mid-September […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I didn’t know how many parts of the body could hurt from walking. I wrote that statement in a blog post or a notebook early in the walk. It was true. I hurt all over. My shoulders hurt from walking. How does that happen? My hips hurt from walking. At least I […]

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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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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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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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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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