Day 19 – 7/17 – East Moline, IL to Davenport, IA – 14 miles
Look, I love long days of walking through beautiful countryside. Some of those stretches along Illinois’s canals, even as they pushed double-digit miles between cold drinks, were beautiful enough on their own to keep me humming along for hours. But even then, there’s some degree of diminishing returns. It is possible to have too much […]
Days 15-18 – 7/13–7/16 – Joliet to East Moline, IL – 135 miles
Note: For full access to everything from the walk, check out my Patreon and Instagram pages. As I’ve written, my overarching goal when I set out on this walk was to understand America more deeply. I’ve spent years engaging in long-distance walks, mostly in Europe, and I came to perceive that as a sort of self-indulgent escapism, especially as […]