I posted six days ago, and in the six days since, I have walked 68,000 steps. For the first time, I am walking more than my goal of 10,000 steps per day. This actually starts twelve days ago, the day after I got back from a wedding in Colorado, as I have walked 126,000 steps in those twelve days.
I am getting into a groove.
My formula is to take the dog for a walk in the morning, walk with my brother (and the dog) at night, and then get a couple thousand more steps in by stretching out the morning walk, going to Costco or Walmart, or taking a third walk.
The 570,000 steps I have stepped since October 1 put me just past Leavenworth, Washington, still in the mountains, but well on the way down the eastern slopes. I went to a Christmas lighting ceremony in Leavenworth once, around this time of year. The picture above is of one of those ceremonies, but it was not taken by me, and probably was a different year. It looks about the same though.
I remember that there were lots of people, and that it was cold - maybe 15 or 20 degrees, really cold. We went inside some to keep warm, but we froze enough that we slunk back to the bus about 45 minutes early to thaw out, only to find that about half the people on the bus were there ahead of us.
That's a nice reminder that I'm glad that I am walking across the US in the comfort of my own neighborhood rather than actually walking across the US. If I ever do decide to walk all the way from Cape Flattery to Miami, I'm going to hole up in an Airbnb for the winter. Not that I will ever decide to do such a thing.
The next town of any size is Cashmere, which is touted as the geographic center of Washington, although it is well over halfway to Idaho from Cape Flattery, my starting point on the Olympic Peninsula. This appears to be because Cape Flattery sticks out farther West than the rest of Washington.
Despite my twelve days of progress, I am almost 70,000 steps short of where I should be by now. Much more walking to do still.
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