Taking A Walk

by Dwayne Phillips I just received approval for a Leave of Absence from my job. I will be walking again. The plan is to start on Tuesday September 22nd. This is great news.

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by Dwayne Phillips If you are using the RSS feed to this blog or something that points you to it when something changes, you have noticed something: Lots of changes to the blog entries. I belong to a small writers group. This week I was challenged to do something related to writing that I had […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We paused our walk on November 4th with the birth of our grandson. That was almost a month ago. I miss the walking – a lot. I am trying to find a way to be back on the road. What is holding me is the mundane task of finding a job. I […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Today we walked through the village of Fairfield, Virginia (that’s what their sign read – “village”). That was the only town or village or anything we transited). We covered about 13 miles. Rain was forecast, but except for some drizzle in the morning, we were dry. The three miles north of Fairfield […]

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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 […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Karen and I walked from Purcellville to Berryville, Virginia. Purcellville is in Loudon County while Berryville is the county seat of Clarke County. This is 15 miles and took six hours of walking. Here is a photo of the Clarke County Courthouse in Berryville. This walk was all done on Route 7. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Now at least I am in the right calendar year. On this Saturday, I walked from Leesburg to Purcellville, Virginia. This was ten miles on the W&OD trail. I walked alone and completed this in 3 1/2 hours. That is a speed of three miles per hour, so I probably walked too […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I want to walk down U.S. Highway 11 from Northern Virginia to Louisiana. I’ve had this desire for several years now. This all started in 1980 when I graduated college and moved from Southeast Louisiana to the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C. With breaks for graduate school and living outside the […]

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