This was the class song for the Palmetto Tigers of 1974 , sung by Seals & Crofts – very appropriate for how I often feel on this journey. I get so ’emo’ when I’m passing through an area for the last time. I’m flooded with memories of these places – once strange, now familiar. Snapshots…
All things considered (weather, traffic, scenery, etc), this was perhaps the most consistently pleasant week of walking to date. I started out in Bay City – which is a city on a bay (duh!), and transitioned that same day to the Tillamook area and its pastoral beauty. During the last half of Thursday’s walk I reached…
I told Larry, “I’m ready to go – I’m just not ready to leave.” This one was hard… not sure why, ’cause it won’t be as long as last time. I was really kinda melancholy as I drove away from home, but when I turned on the radio, guess what the first song was? Oceans!…
I’m excited to report that I visited three world capitals in one week! The logging Capital of the World (Forks, WA), the Lumber Capital of the World (Aberdeen, WA), and the Oyster Capital of the World (South Bend, WA) – and yes… logs, lumber and oysters were in abundant supply. This picture was taken near…
First of all, Happy Mothers’ Day to all the Moms – there is no more rewarding a profession than raising up the next generation. Spotlights this week: Always: Hope Chapel Missions Charity Spotlight: Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Church Spotlight: First Christian Church – Tillamook, Oregon I’m home enjoying some R & R before heading north again on Friday…
The first few days of this week were more emotional for me than I could have imagined. I found a happy place – the little park in Astoria where I took my first pictures of the bridge. During the 4 days I stayed in Astoria I was drawn back to that park briefly every morning…
Soles 4 Hope 