Not too much happening here in Virginia this week. Valda & I drove up into the mountains west of Roanoke on Saturday, to see the scenery for sure but also to beat the heat here in the valley. We drove to New Castle and then went south on Hwy 42 about 30 miles, then looped around on some US highways and ended up in Blacksburg. We drove through the Virginia Tech campus and stopped and saw the memorial they have constructed for the 32 people who were killed in April. It was move-in day and there were a lot of people in town. Today they dedicated the memorial and then we heard on TV hat there were several students who were stricken with carbon monoxide poisoning. Five girls are in really bad shape. It just doesn't seem to end for those people.
Son Chris got back to Seattle. He seemed to have a real good time on his trip across the USA. We should have the website any day now. This morning we had a photographer from the Roanoke Times come by and take pictures of me walking along a local road. There is a reporter coming to see us this next Thursday for an interview. Hopefully the story will be in the paper next Saturday or Sunday. If it is like it was in Chattanooga, there will be a link on the Internet to the story. I'll keep you posted.
It's less than 8 months till the start of the walk. Things are progressing, but sometimes it seems like the Dog Days are here. I think a lot of that is because it is so hot and each day seems like the one before. I wish it was 20 degrees cooler and I was in my last week of work here. Oh well, I guess it too will pass.
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