American Discovery Trail: Marion, Indiana

National Bank building in Marion, Indiana

Trump champions a racist, thoroughly stupid and evidence-free conspiracy that says Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

Republicans: This is great!

Trump cheats on all his wives, has sex with a porn star and pays her to keep quiet, sexually assaults E. Jean Carroll, and has 20+ women accuse him of inappropriate behavior.

Republicans: No problem.

Trump lies 30,000 times in office, thousands more times before he took office, thousands of times after.

Republicans: Don't care.

Trump tries to extort Ukraine into opening a bogus "investigation" into Biden in order to influence the election.

Republicans: No big deal.

Trump is convicted of 34 felonies, has many more serious indictments in the queue.

Republicans: Whatever.

Trump steals hundreds of classified documents, refuses to return them, and hides them from the FBI.

Republicans: LALALALALA don't want to know.

Trump openly supports Russian priorities and attacks NATO.

Republicans: We love Russia too!

Trump tries to set aside the rightful US government and appoint himself president despite losing the election, quite possibly the worst crime ever committed by any American.

Republicans: He's still our guy.

Trump shoots someone in the middle of Times Square.

Republicans: Oh well, he's done a lot worse.

Biden looks old and confused in a debate after four years as a very good president.

Democrats: The end times are here! He has to go!

I made it through the first Indiana segment of my trip, segment 21 of 68, more than 1,200 miles from the start of the trip, and, finally, just past one-quarter of the way to Point Reyes and the Pacific Ocean. Already we are one-third of the way through Indiana, which seems very quick after Ohio.

June was a good walking month, with 10,500 steps per day. I have now been on the trail one year, and my average steps per day are 10,700, although I only counted steps 251 days out of the 366 since I started last July 1. Assuming I miss about 50 days per year going forward, I have another two and a half years to go.

Overall, this is still fun. I enjoy making progress, and the writing keeps me on track and holds me accountable.

Ireland pictures:

At the Jameson Distillery. We tasted whiskeys and took some home with us, although only for Jackie. I will taste the stuff, but I don't ever choose to drink it.

This is the best Ireland picture, taken by some kind soul at the Cliffs of Moher. It is the background picture on my computer now, replacing Sean Bean dressed as Brandon Stark, telling us that winter is coming, for the last several years. It was time for a change.