Day 22 – Red Bud to Waterloo, IL
The town of Waterloo is in mourning. From one side of town to the other, some three or four miles in all, half-masted flags and homages to Illinois State Patrol’s Nick Hopkins made the sense of loss palpable. “It’s really crazy,” a woman at Bootsie’s Coffee told me. “He was Waterloo born and raised, a […]
Day 21 – Chester to Red Bud, IL
Walking through this region, probably any region, can get monotonous. I understand the arguments for bicycles; they’d make it much easier to cruise through 10 miles of soybeans and corn unscathed, and on to the next interesting thing. There is something quite profound, I think, about the supremely slow-burn of a long-distance walk. For one, […]