Getting Ready For My Walk

Things are happening and plans are coming right along to get ready to head out on my walk again.  The new harness I had custom-made is perfect!  It fits well and works good. 

The box of Bibles I ordered also arrived.  For being a box of 100 small, pocket-size Bibles, that box was HEAVY!  I plan on carrying 20 or 25 of them with me, and giving the rest of the box to my friend Mark, who said he'd mail them to me as I needed them.  I am still kindof nervous about handing out Bibles.  I've never, ever done anything like that before, and still don't think that I have enough nerve to do that....but I'm fairly good at writing, so I figure I'll highlight some of my favorite verses, and include a personal note inside the Bible, put it in a zip-lock baggie, and simply leave them behind as I go on my trip. The New Testament Bibles cost $1.60 apiece.

The other day I bought several boxes of Zataran's Red Beans & Rice mix, and I had ordered a large bag of dehydrated chicken, and also a bag of dehydrated vegetables.  I took one box of red beans & rice and divided it into 2 little snack-size zip-lock bags.  Then I added 2 TBSP of chicken, and 2 TBSP of veggies, and zipped them up.  I had 16, but now am down to 15, because I decided maybe I'd better try one out, to see if it was actually edible.  It actually tasted pretty good, and I discovered that I didn't need to add quite as much water as I did.  So the other 15 bags went into my bear-proof food container.  I also tossed in 2 bags of dehydrated corn chowder, and a jar of peanut butter.  I still need to get some tortillas, tea bags, honey, candy bars, and a bunch of protein bars.  That should get me started.

Several people from town have mentioned that they'd like to walk with me from Dot Lake (where I'll be starting at) down to the Canadian border -- about 150 miles.  I think that'd be great, and would thoroughly enjoy the company!  So I contacted the Delta Wind Newspaper and asked them to put something in the paper asking for volunteers to help with transportation (driving friends out and back), food (sandwiches, water, bring out the grill and lets grill some burgers!), or if people would like to bring out their campers & RV's and join us out on the road.  I would really enjoy having people walk with me -- but I gotta say, it kinda made me pause and wonder why I'm being escorted out to the border.....!!