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Get to know the people behind the walk, stay up to date with news from the road, and see how the story is being shared in the press. From personal reflections to public milestones, this is where it all comes together.
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DAYS 70 & 71 - Gordon, NE - 1345 miles from home
I'm writing this from the gorgeous backyard of our hosts for the last two nights - Sandi and Wayne Muirhead, trustees of the Gordon...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Sep 135 min read


DAYS 68 & 69 - Hay Springs & Rushville, NE - 1308 miles from home
It's hard to imagine true violence, when you're walking alongside the road. The human-paced stride of the walk, the buzz of the cicadas,...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Sep 114 min read


Days 65-67 - Crawford, NE - 1269 miles from home
People. I'm sitting in a spacious church basement, drinking filtered ice water and feasting on the leftovers from two full days of...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Sep 84 min read


DAYS 63 & 64 - Crossing into Nebraska! - 1208 miles from home
Van Tassell is not the smallest town we've walked through in Wyoming (at population 22, it's easily three times as populous as Lost...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Sep 53 min read


DAY 62 - Lusk, WY - 1167 miles from home
I've often said that I come from the land of "snark" - as in, I grew up in your typical American Jewish family, living in a pretty...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Sep 43 min read


DAYS 60 & 61 - Douglas, WY - 1147 miles from home
A requiem - before anything else - before I share about the restorative two days we've spent at a vibrant community church in Douglas. A...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Sep 34 min read


DAYS 56-59 - CASPER, WY - 1106 miles from home
It's been a busy time. We've just spent four days in and around Casper, Wyoming. We've replaced a ceiling fan and airconditioning unit in...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Aug 314 min read


DAYS 53-55 - Hell's Half-Acre and beyond - 1044 miles from home
One thousand miles. It's hard to make sense of that number. My British friend Andy puts it in perspective this way: if you left London...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Aug 273 min read


Elijah's Grizzly Encounter - August 18
Grand Teton National Park... Both Elijah and Kate had some remarkable close encounters of the mammalian kind when we were in the Tetons....
Esther Lisa Tishman
Aug 271 min read


DAYS 51 & 52- Shoshoni, WY - 984 miles from home
We are spending two nights in a beautiful setting that is literally a "refuge": Machaseh Retreat Center, in Shoshoni. "Machaseh" (...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Aug 243 min read


DAY 50 - Morton & Riverton, WY - 946 miles from home
Okay. First of all. We are now one-third of the way to Washington. And even so. I've been thinking a lot about pilgrimage and pain....
Esther Lisa Tishman
Aug 233 min read


DAY 49 - Crowheart, WY - 926 miles from home
Why oh why Wyoming? This landscape is hitting me deeply - and I'm not entirely sure why. It's not just the proverbially big sky. It's not...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Aug 223 min read


DAYS 46-48 - Dubois, WY - 907 miles from home
Yes, I'm covering three days in this post.... Apologies, but two of those days have been "zero" days - days to run errands and just to...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Aug 204 min read


DAYS 44 & 45 - Moran, WY - 869 miles from home
Over the weekend it rained, it stormed (lightning on the mountain top, oh my), it even hailed. We crossed the Continental Divide on Day...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Aug 182 min read


DAYS 42 & 43 - Colter Bay Village, WY - 812 miles from home
"Manifestation" is one of those new age words that I've always been a bit allergic to... What some folks call The Law of Attraction -...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Aug 163 min read


DAY 41 - Ashton, ID - 773 miles from home
Writing this on the morning of Day 42, August 14th. We're staying two nights in Ashton, being spoiled rotten by the incomparable...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Aug 144 min read


DAYS 39 & 40 - Rexburg & St. Anthony, ID - 755 miles from home
I don't want to blend too many of our separate adventures into one blog post, but the last two days share a common host - the Upper...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Aug 132 min read


DAYS 37 & 38 - Idaho Falls, ID - 717 miles from home
Oh, the luxuries! We really hoofed it last week, adding extra miles to our walks where we could - which wasn't a hardship, because we're...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Aug 113 min read


DAYS 35 & 36 - Mud Lake, ID - 717 miles from home
I'm writing this on the morning of day 37, August 9 , from the Community Church of Mud Lake. We've walked more than 700 miles - with the...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Aug 94 min read


DAY 34 - Howe, ID - 668 miles from home
I keep calling this journey a pilgrimage - but maybe the term is misleading, if it conjures up a merely individual, personal pursuit - a...
Esther Lisa Tishman
Aug 73 min read
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