Week 38: Martin, South Dakota

I was trying to smile

Martin is an actual town in a less-populated part of southern South Dakota, and a county seat, with a population of about 1,000 people (Wikipedia gives the population as both 938 and 1,170, so, uh...) What is more important about Martin is that it is less than 40 miles from the Nebraska border, and I walk 40 miles a week, so next week I will be in Nebraska. Also, I am less than 75.000 steps from 3,000,000 steps, so I will hit that mark next week as well, somewhere past the Nebraska border.

A measure of just how far it is across the United States is this: 3,000,000 steps represents 6/14 of my total journey. It will take me 45 days to to get from there to 3,500,000 steps, 7/14 of the way to Miami, or halfway. 1/14 equals 45 days. The US is a big place.

One new development - I am beginning to think the heat may affect my walking as much as the cold did during the winter. Today the temperature got up to 90, and I do not believe that I will walk as much in this kind of weather. I will. however, move my morning walks to earlier, and we'll see if that makes it bearable. I did a little walking this afternoon in the heat of the of the day, and that's just nuts. July and August could be a challenge.