Life is in the details.

So I've been doing some thinking about my walk and I've come up with some concerns.

Here's some examples:

1. How am I going to do it?
2. Is Columbine/Littleton too far?
3. What if I don't finish?

#1 I can tackle right now.  How am I going to do it?  The simple answer is "I don't know."  I have no idea how I'm going to accomplish this task.  I figure putting my right foot in front of my left foot is a good start and I plan on repeating that step as many times as necessary.

#2 is easy as well.  The answer there being..."probably.  Well actually more like: "It probably is too far but that's where you're headed by golly so quit your belly aching."

#3 is a bit more difficult.  I'm starting as soon as school lets out for the Summer (I'm a teacher if you hadn't surmised) so I will have most of June, all of July, and a healthy chunk of August to complete the trip.  A rough estimate would put me at about 72 days to finish the trip. So, 72 goes into 1,700 how many times? 23.611 repeating.  So I would have to walk an average of 23.6 miles per day to reach my destination.  That doesn't sound like much does it?  However I'm not an uber-hiker and I have to have time to do good deeds on the way or what is the point of being a knight errant?

I'm considering starting my walk in Boone, NC, home of my Alma Mater ASU.  Of course this would only take down my MPD (miles per day) to 20.5 and considering most hikers consider 15 mpd a good sane pace, I might be biting off more than I can chew.  What's a knight errant to do?