Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Lower Valley
I head north to the Lower Valley soon.
This will be a particularly grueling leg. 10 miles today (to Charles Town, WV) and tomorrow (to Bolivar Heights, WV). Then, just as the Stonewall Brigade did, I will move south rapidly, covering 31 miles to Bartonsville. The next day will be 21 miles to Tom's Brook, then 18 miles to Mount Jackson. I will finish this leg with a 6 mile walk to New Market on Sunday. That will 96 miles in 6 days.
I will then have to take a break of a few days to do some business in Washington with the British. This will cause some deliberate deviations from the day to day following of the Stonewall Brigade's itinerary. This cannot be helped. I will still walk every mile the brigade did, and will still start and finish the whole route within the number of days that the Stonewall Brigade did (3 May to 9 June).
I will restart in New Market on June 7th, when I will walk the leg that the Stonewall Brigade actually walked on June 4th. On June 8th, I will walk the leg from Mauzy to Port Republic that the Stonewall Brigade actually walked on June 5th. Between June 6th and June 8th, the Stonewall Brigade was generally stationary, resting and recuperating.
I will finish the last mile on the morning of June 9th in Port Republic.
Pete Marovich and Jenny Jones' on-line magazine, American Journal has published an article on my walk.
http://www.american-journal.org/issue6/profile.html
I will be incommunicado for a few days.
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