Roanoke

Okay, we are off and working in Roanoke. Very pretty here, lots of hills and it's good training, so everyone says (they aren't the one out climbing them). It has been very humid lately with PM rain storms. Valda & I can't wait to start seeing all the presidents homes here and there throughout the state. We were disappointed not being able to go to IN, but are glad we got to come here. It sort of all worked out.

Our son Chris has been working on our website. He hopes to have it up and running in July. Hopefully we will have a satellite image with a map overlay showing the route. I've seen the first 22 miles of the route this way and it is pretty spectacular. Pretty scary too.

Heard from some old RV friends we met in Homosassa, FL 6 years ago. They also have a blog chronicling their journeys. We haven't seen them since FL, but email back and forth. So far, our paths haven't crossed again, but it's always a possibility. Heard from some people I don't know that work for Southern Cross who just happened to stumble across our blog. It's strange how things happen.

Valda is set to go to Oklahoma for 2 weeks to see Syndi and family, and Chris is flying there too for 4-5 days. Sure wish I could go, but that's not possible right at the moment.

Have many letters out to corporations for sponsorships. Hopefully by the next posting there will be some news. The picture is of Roanoke taken from one of the hills that surround the city. The people here call them mountains...people from Colorado call them bumps. Next time I'll talk about the utilidors at Disney World. All for now.

Goodbye TN, hello VA

It's been awhile between postings and things are happening. First off, Valda & I are going to be leaving Tullahoma on Monday the 18th and strike out for Roanoke, VA. We've never been there except to pass through, and so are excited to be going somewhere we've never been.

Second, it hasn't rained here in middle TN for at least a month. So, last Friday, it looked like rain all day, and finally around four o'clock, it hit. There was a tremendous wind and the next thing we knew, our large awning was setting on top of our RV. The awning was destroyed and it put a hole in our rubber roof. Yesterday the insurance adjuster told us it was about $6000 worth of damage. So, when we get to Roanoke...

We got some very positive feedback from the marketing director of Etonic Worldwide about my shoes. We're waiting on getting things set up with the marketing division. More when that happens.

Had a phone interview with The Chattanooga Times Free Press last week. Kelly Proctor posted the interview on the net as well as publishing it in the paper last Saturday. I accessed the interview by googling my name and then going down the list to where it says something about "Boomer walks across USA..." It is a pretty good read, and you can actually hear a lot of the interview by clicking on the audio box. Pretty neat. Next time I post, I'll be in Roanoke, Virginia (I think).

Ten months to go

Not much going on here in Tullahoma, TN. I'm walking eight to ten miles a day trying to get through with the work here. I still have about 20 maps to do and quite a few miles left to walk. It's good training for my walk, and I get paid for it.
My son Chris sent me a link to a blog written by a realtor in Orlando, FL who once worked at Disney World. He had a rather lengthy posting about the underground tunnels (utilidors) beneath The Magic Kingdom. He seemed a bit bitter about WDW but had some good info concerning the utilidors. I read it and a few days later visited the site to read it again and couldn't find any indication of that particular blog at all. Curious. We had heard while working at WDW that they were extremely protective of info leaking out about their operation, and I wonder if they somehow persuaded the ex-cast member to delete it. If anyone wants to know about some of the inner workings of WDW, let me know and I'll post some comments about it. It was a great experience as far as I'm concerned and I don't think I'll spill any secrets.
No news on the walk this week. More later.