Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Total mileage to date: 454 - tomorrow is another day!! Take a walk, I am!
Today I walked 15.50 miles. The walk started out to follow the ADT from Miami County, IN into and through part of Fulton County, IN. However, I discovered that part of the Nickel Plate Trail was paved and the other part had the limestone base down, so I decided to walk that. I got on at Deedsville, IN an unpaved portion of the trail and walked north to Rochester, IN. At about mile 3 I ran into the paving crew. It was the company Phend & Brown from Milford, IN, a company I had used many times in my construction days. I was able to walk around the machinery and trucks and continue on my way. One picture of the unpaved portion and one of the machine putting down the asphalt are attached. Closer to Rochester I met a man, his wife and young child. Mr. Terry Lee and his wife and daughter. Small world that it is Mrs. Lee was meeting my niece later in the day. I understand that Mr.Lee was one of the prime movers in getting the trail done. It is going to be a great trail running from Rochester to Peru, about 21 miles. I then walked through Rochester, stopping at the Rochester Sentinel where I talked about my walk with the editor, Mr. Bill Wilson. He ask me which way I was going when I left town, and I showed him on my maps. He said that he would have a photographer track me down for some pictures, and that I should get him some information on my walk. Which I will do. The town was getting ready for the annual Round Barn Festival with booths in the streets and all that goes with such festive events. I was at the far edge of town when Mike the photographer caught up with me and did his thing. Then across the busy highway and another mile and that ended the walk for today. One of the pictures attached is me on the new trail, one of the front of the office of the orthopedic surgeon who puts me back together on a somewhat regular basis, so I can do what I do.