Rather than end my trip there, I bit the bullet and I decided to stop in at a motel and dry off and warm up, that was kind of a low point. I had tried to do this . . . just like Grandpa Joshua did. Sleeping under the stars, fording the rivers, carrying all my own food.

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This is where Grandpa Joshua came in 1779, so he would have been right here somewhere in this little area.

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I can't wait to sit down, i haven't had a soft chair in a long time. Physically, I feel fine. I feel like any other day I would get up for work. ... I could keep going if I wanted. But I don't want to.

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The American dream started on this road. by Curtis Penix

The American dream started on this road.

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I quickly found out that by getting your feet wet and then continuing to walk, you could get what the pioneers called 'scalded feet,'.

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When a large truck would come by, we had this little technique where we would lean (on their walking sticks) into the ditch and away from the road, just long enough for them to go by, and then we'd pop back out on the road.

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