Five Million Steps

Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Shelby, NE

I actually passed five million steps on this walk yesterday, which still does not get me halfway to Point Reyes, but it is a milestone. Combined with my previous walk to Miami, I have taken more than twelve million steps since I started keeping track three and a half years ago.

We should get to the halfway point early next month.

Shelby, Nebraska is a village of 714, with a school that satellite view reveals says "Huskies" in each end zone of their football field. Shelby is about ten miles from Stromsburg, which is the end of this segment of the trail.

Satellite view also shows that all around Shelby, for miles and miles, the land is split into one-mile-square pieces by straight roads with clever names such as County Road 29, County Road 30, County Road T (running perpendicular), and County Road U. Every square mile, all around for a long way, is cultivated, including the square miles which are partly taken up by the village of Shelby, with Shelby taking up just small corners of three of those square miles.

Farm country, I would say.

This weekend, I will attend my first-ever protest march, in Olympia on Saturday afternoon. I will take pictures if I can.