ADT: Salem, West Virginia

Clarksburg, WV

This week, I finished the eighth segment of the American Discovery Trail and started the ninth, passing Clarksburg and Wilsonburg WV and making my way ten miles down the next segment, past Wolf Summit and on to Salem. The Ohio border is the at the end of the current segment, 65 miles from here.

We are looking at pictures of people this week; each of these pictures pops up on Google Images when you put in the name of the town I passed through.

My walking has been severely hampered by the cold weather here. For six consecutive days through last weekend, temperatures were in the 20s and even teens, and I walked just over 6,000 steps at most - barely over 2,000 one day. As a result, I have walked fewer than 10,000 steps per day for the month, although I may still just get there by month end. Starting last Tuesday, the weather has been warmer (high 30s to mid-40s) and my daily progress is back on track.

Total distance covered so far is 537 miles, 1.2 million steps. If I were repeating the walk to Miami, I would just be in Idaho by now. Early days.

Wolf Summit, WV. Meet Martha Stonestreet.

At Salem, WV, there is a Fort Salem. Put Fort Salem into Google Images and this picture from a TV show comes up. In the show, Fort Salem is the location of a boot camp for magical people, in a world where women are on the front lines in battle and men are not, and so....zzzzz. The picture says copyright Disney Enterprises. The show lasted three years.

There is an actual fort at Salem. It looks like an old fort.