Taking A Walk

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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by Dwayne Phillips It was the ninth day of taking a walk in 2009. As a coincidence, it was the first day of October 2009. What was important was that it was the first day that I woke feeling good. The previous eight days I woke in pain. My legs hurt, my feet hurt, my […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Hills and turns. Up and down, back and forth. Such a road is great for driving a sports car, but terrible for walking – especially with a bicycle (see how I had to walk with a bicycle for three weeks ). It isn’t so much physically exhausting as it is mentally and […]

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by Dwayne Phillips “There were days when I didn’t want to eat anything.” That is a good way to lose weight: walk 18 miles, ride a bike 18 miles, do it all in 85+ degrees heat, and don’t eat. Yes, you can lose weight that way – I don’t advise it, but it works. The […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I love to eat at unique, small-town restaurants. I have written of some those in this series of blog posts. After those, I ate at national fast food chains. McDonald’s, the most prevalent of all fast foot chains, was the the least frequented. I liked Hardee’s best because we don’t have Hardee’s […]

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by Dwayne Phillips My son Adam was ten (now he is 22). He was on a new soccer team, and I took him to practice and watched. The coach was a tall man just a few years younger than me. The team looked pretty good, real good. Well, they were real good. They won every […]

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by Dwayne Phillips My wife is a dietitian. She once ran a school cafeteria and fed 700 kids a day. She pays attention to what we eat and always keeps us on a balanced diet. I like hamburgers and french fries. I have always liked hamburgers and french fries. And then there are hot dogs. […]

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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 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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