I just went on a trip up to OHIO/PA/WV to walk with John Francis, planetwalker. We walked twenty-one miles from Wheeling to the intersection of 40 and 800, where John Francis will pick up again next year, hopefully with our company.

This is David and his dad Ted, they were driving behind us (Jeremy, Jenn, John, and John). David and Ted had to drive their own car because their names don't start with a J.





John Francis and John Graham discuss the route, while the banjo rests. John Graham is a mad scientist, who planned our route, tracked John Francis with GPS, took water samples, and found a wonderful spot for us to eat our lunch in the trees. They both have a stunning sense of vast interconnectedness.

While we walked we saw some cats...


We ate bananas among other things.


Something happened to the back of this cement truck.

These mushrooms were at the end of our walk, the only mushrooms we saw the whole time. Jeremy climbed into the bushes on the side of the road to photograph them.



Our walk ended with a long bending down hill to a spot where the road was abandoned and flooded and John Graham waited there for us.
When we finished walking, I was tired and glad to take off my pack. Thats when I saw that Jeremy had collected quite a few of these strange dandelions, and put them in my pack; I was a walking flower vase.