A New Beginning

Cape Henlopen, Delaware

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

Bilbo Baggins

In my last post, I said that I would be hiking more than 5,000 miles. However, I am actually walking the shorter of the two routes across the country, which the trail website says is only 4,834 miles. The details of the hike are described state by state, so I listed the information from each state onto a spreadsheet, and I came to 4,870.8 miles. The difference is not enough to worry about, but still, it is more than a rounding error. Strange. But I will be walking the 4,870.8 miles, because  I can account for that distance.

 On average, I will be blogging every two weeks or so, although the times in between will vary. Especially in the West, segments are longer. In Colorado, someone got lazy, so the segments are almost 200 miles apiece. Not the even once-a-week pace of the last walk. Also, there will be some major breaks starting in August, though I will try to fill in with vacation pictures.

The trail begins at Cape Henlopen in Delaware, a state I have never visited, at least since I can remember. That looks like a sunset in the picture, but since it is at the Atlantic Ocean, sunrise is more likely. It looks pretty there.

Today is day one. My phone says I have walked 4.81 miles. 4,866 to go.