Day 209 / 1428 Miles When walking, I try to stay heads up to take in everything the day’s path has to display. But, not keeping track of the ground before your feet can result in your own cann on the pavement, and with no one else to blame. (There’s a reason they call it ass-fault). Looking down too, can result in spotting curiosities that sometimes are more engrossing than what’s on the horizon. I’ve not found that Krugerrand I’d so hoped for, but hope flows; the journey’s not concluded. In the mean, I’ll be content with the few found… Continue reading→

DAY 203 / 1381 MILES One question on the list from my post “So Many Questions Grasshopper” concerns, Most interesting vs. Most boring. Specifically, where is a walker most likely to encounter the unexpected just around the next curve? Although I haven’t arrived at the station yet, I now realize the answer is clear. Having walked nearly all our rural environs, industrial zones, institutional campi, and areas of commerce, I’m in the habitat’s heart now. What’s left to walk is almost exclusively residential. Within the city’s living quarters, there are 8 zone classifications which dictate the density of dwellers permitted… Continue reading→

DAY 196 / 1337 MILES Our namesake, -Valle de Aosta- I had heard, (and always accepted because it sounded plausible), meant “Valle(y) of Beauty”. Expending about as much energy as it takes to blink, I “researched” and found that Aoste actually means Rome of the Alps. It would follow then that our South Georgia version of -Valle de Aoste- would translate to -Atlanta of the Pineywood Flatlands-. I’m still working out whether thats a compliment or criticism. (I’m sorry I looked it up now). But since I’m well beyond the half way point of (possibly) accomplishing something no other Valdostan… Continue reading→

DAY 192 / MILE 1308 I’ve now completed walking the named subdivisions lying outside the Dosta ramparts, that are reflected on my 55 inch map of the town . While there are more named subdivisions out in Lowndes county, my friends at PRINT LIFE (who made the map) made me aware that in order to produce one large enough for me to trace every named subdivision, and every community in the county too, would require a wall map, the notion to which my hen put her three toed foot down (or is it four). So, as to the other subdivisions not… Continue reading→