Week 45: Starting The Second Half

West Point, Nebraska, looks suspiciously like the last Nebraska town.

If you want to walk from Washington to Florida by crossing the fewest number of states, you can do it in only eight: Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida.

Instead, I have passed through six states already, and will walk more in Nebraska, plus eight others: Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.

The biggest town I have walked through so far is Spokane, Washington, but in the second half of the walk, in the more densely populated half of the country, I will visit Omaha, Kansas City, Memphis, Montgomery, and Tallahassee, then end in Miami. Instead of writing about tiny unknown places, I can spend a little time writing about places people have heard of.

Right now, my sights are set on Omaha, less than 80 miles ahead, then crossing the Missouri River into Iowa.