Taking A Walk

by Dwayne Phillips I used a Visa card extensively while taking a walk. My wife didn’t like this. “How can you use a credit card when you are buying something that cost two dollars?” was her usual disdainful question. I understood her dislike for this, but I still used the Visa card. Every day I […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I am an engineer. I like the design of things; I like to see lots of different things so I can study their designs. That is a big reason I loved taking a walk. I could see all the roads, fences, houses, barns, tractors, cars, trucks, silos, and everything else in rural […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I wore one brand of shirt the entire 1,100-mile walk – Filson. Several years before taking a walk, I bought a Filson shirt. It was their model for people who liked to fish. It had funny pockets with zippers and compartments and all such things that, as a person who never goes […]

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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 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 A constant companion on all 1,100 miles of walking was my Eddie Bauer Trailhead backpack. I guess the correct term is a “day pack” as it is big enough to carry the things you need in a day hike. I carried food, camera, band-aids, sun block, bandannas, extra clothing, sometimes a computer, […]

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by Dwayne Phillips There are a lot of name-brand pieces of apparel out there that people recommend for walking and other activities. Most of them are over-rated. Here is one that is not – the Tilley Hat. I bought one of these on suggestion of a friend. The money was more than worth it. I […]

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by Dwayne Phillips In Georgia and Alabama, there are mile markers along the side of Route 11. I don’t recall seeing these in Virginia and Tennessee. These mile markers are a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that it is easier to keep track of my progress. I know how far I have walked […]

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