An Experiment: Walking Poetry's America: Part 8

[scottwoods]

In a previous entry I started laying the timeframe down.   Let me finish that bit of math now.

Remember:

That's like:
- waking up at 6:30
- 7:00 breakfast/chill
- hit the road at 8:00 until
- lunch at 12:00
- hit the road again at 1:00 until 6:00. That's 40 miles a day.

Basically it's a work day. You could walk to Cleveland in 3.6 days.
On paper it

Comments

[chaptal]

Have you taken adverse weather conditions into account sir?

[abiegale]

Let us also add into this writing time. There are two types of writing you are going to have to do on this hypothetical trip:

(1) new poems - because the events and the journey alone will create many new poems. Also, lets be honest, you like doing new shit as you don't want to be one of those guys who does the same set night after night. And there are going to be a whole lot of sets to be done along the journey.
(2) the book - a book a la Bill Bryson hiking the AT will need to get written because you are going to have to fund this trip somehow, son!

[ticasdaze]

I'm sorry, but I had to laugh by the "Smash, punch, cry" at the end because this sounds exactly like me when I get mixed up in the math. <3

[whoisthespirit]

Another thing to take into account is the basic wear and tear of walking... i.e. as it is with height (you are taller in the morning than you are in the evening of the same day) so, too, is it with walking, i.e. you will be moving considerable faster early in the morning when you are fresh and rested, than you will be after four or five hours of continual walking when your feet start to ache and so on. Certainly proper equipment can ease this, but it doesn't negate it from happening. So you have to actually provide a declination of miles covered as the day goes on, essentially if you are doing 4mph in the morning you may be doing 2mph by the end of the day and you need to figure out the rate of decline.

[only1miouo]

So basically a year long hiking trip? Give or take.

Really what I wonder about is the expense and how to get funding. Didnt one of your friends comment in another post about writing a grant proposal?

I'm glad you are the one hashing all this out and not me. :-P