Day 18 – Goreville to Giant City State Park, IL
It’s pretty much the lamest advice you can offer a person: go to bed and hopefully it’ll feel better in the morning. But here’s the thing: it’s true! Of all the things that long-distance walking has given me, it’s a healthy sense of admiration for my body’s ability to undo the damage I’ve done to […]
Days 15-17 – Shawneetown to Goreville, IL
The Wonder Bread truck driver is having a bad day. I’ve just walked into Goreville’s Dollar General on Thursday afternoon and Wonder dude is leaning over his hand truck, now freed of its glutinous burden, and working on unloading his own. “I mean, I’m not allowed to be on Facebook, but she’s friends with her […]