June, South Dakota Swan Song

A memento of my walking trip

My son bought me a shirt that says Colony, WY on it, so now I have a souvenir of my walk across America. Jarrod suggested I could get shirts for various towns along the route, but I think Colony, Wyoming is particularly memorable due to its unmemorable nature, and as a "populated place" that appears to have a population of zero, it is representative of my trip across the western US.

I walked over 10,000 steps every day in June; my current streak is up to 87 days. I also averaged over 12,000 steps for the third straight month. My average steps per day for the whole exercise are over 10,900, and I am slowly creeping up toward 11,000. Should get there this month. The most steps I took in June were 16,233 on a day when I walked to the lodge and back. The least? Well, we try not to speak of such shameful things, but one day I only took 10,049 steps. My phone thinks I ran 298 of those steps. but I don't think I have actually run 298 steps in the past year.

I am currently on Swan Road in South Dakota, on an 8.3-mile stretch that ends at the Nebraska border, where the name of the road changes. Tomorrow I will cross into Nebraska. The next day I will pass 3,000,000 steps, or 1,500 miles. From there it's a long trek across Nebraska, so we'll be there for a couple of months.