{"id":675,"date":"2010-01-11T06:08:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T11:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/?p=675"},"modified":"2010-01-11T06:08:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T11:08:55","slug":"but-how-did-youlogistics-part-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/2010\/01\/but-how-did-youlogistics-part-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"But How did You&#8230;Logistics Part Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p>My wife Karen accompanied me for the first half of the walk &#8211; Reston, Virginia to Chattanooga, Tennessee. She drove our car and walked much of the way as well. The basic scheme was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Karen drops me at Point A<\/li>\n<li>Karen drives the car to Point B and parks it there<\/li>\n<li>I start walking from Point A to Point B<\/li>\n<li>Karen starts walking from Point B back to Point A<\/li>\n<li>We meet about halfway between Points A and B<\/li>\n<li>We walk together to Point B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This worked well. I walked the full distance from Point A to Point B. Karen walked about halfway from Point B to Point A twice.<\/p>\n<p>There were several problems to this scheme. One was when Route 11 became a four-lane road and there were woods between the divided lanes. We couldn&#8217;t see across the woods to the other side. I would jump into the woods now and then to see if she was approaching. We never missed one another.<\/p>\n<p>Another problem was Karen finding a place to park the car. Churches are a great place to park. Most rural churches are unused during weekdays. Those churches who had staff at the buildings always have friendly staff who don&#8217;t mind you parking. They like to come out of the office and chat.<\/p>\n<p>Another good parking place was a gas station. Gas stations have bathrooms. A technique we used was to never fill the car&#8217;s tank with gas. We kept it around a quarter tank. That way, when Karen parked at a gas station, she could first buy gas, then use the restroom and ask about parking. No one turned us away.<\/p>\n<p>Karen and I had a lot of fun walking like this. We had celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary a couple of months before starting the walk. We get along well and enjoy each the company of one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips My wife Karen accompanied me for the first half of the walk &#8211; Reston, Virginia to Chattanooga, Tennessee. She drove our car and walked much of the way as well. The basic scheme was: Karen drops me at Point A Karen drives the car to Point B and parks it there I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5],"tags":[113,110],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennessee","category-virginia","tag-logistics","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}