Taking A Walk

by Dwayne Phillips TDY (government acronym for temporary duty). It was 1980, I was 21 and just out of college. I went TDY for 78 days. That was 78 days and nights living in housing supplied by the government. Maybe three for four nights in motels, the rest in strange places on military bases and […]

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by Dwayne Phillips For all but a day or two, the walking in 2009 was done in the Central Time Zone. I had a tough time switching from Eastern time to Central time (see this post). Once switched, however, I loved the Central Time zone. Television programs that start at 8 PM Eastern time start […]

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by Dwayne Phillip I got an iPhone shortly after ending the walking in November of 2008. I have the 3G model. Lots of Internet access and such, camera, but no compass and the goodies that come in the model of 2009 (the 3GS). I had this iPhone the entire time walking in 2009. It was […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I enjoyed taking a walk for 1,100 miles or so. When asked about doing it again or doing another route, I reply that I would do it given finances and such. It was fun. There were tough times in the walk. There were periods where the weather was either too wet, too […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Our walking in the fall of 2008 ended on November 4th as we happily drove home to see our grandson on the day he was born. This year, I was spurred on to a quicker pace in order to be back in Reston, Virginia for his first birthday. One of the tougher […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I was in a northern suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. It was midday and I was hungry. There was a pizza place in the end unit of a shopping center. It wasn’t a chain of any kind, just a local place – perfect. They sold pizza by the slice. I looked at their […]

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by Dwayne Phillips She was walking across a U.S. highway crying, her face covered with tears. I saw her first and pointed to her to show my wife. My wife left the car immediately, pulled by a force to the little girl. We had just completed our walking for the day and had set in […]

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by Dwayne Phillips To help me collect my thoughts and experiences from taking a walk, I will write (hi)stories from the walk. Some will be long and some short. I will attempt to write at least one story each day. Watch for them. They will be tagged as “Stories”. Thanks

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by Dwayne Phillips I did wear shoes while walking. I only wore two pair of shoes. The first just didn’t work for me. They were a pair of New Balance walking shoes. These are great shoes for walking around town up to ten miles a day. They didn’t, however, work out on Route 11. They […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Many times I would be talking or emailing a friend and hear or read, Wow! You reached there already? I walk about three miles an hour. That is pretty slow in today’s world. Consider the distance that I would walk on a big day: 20 miles. A person could drive that route […]

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