This blog will track my first-ever attempt at a coast-to-coast road walking journey, sure to be a very different experience from the wilderness-style thru-hikes I’ve done over the past 10 years. I completed the triple crown of US long distance hiking in 2022, returned to the Appalachian Trail in 2023 for a second thru-hike of that trail, and returned to the southern New Mexico section of the Continental Divide Trail earlier this month, serving as a warm-up and precursor to this Coast-to-Coast walk that begins in earnest from Pike’s Market (on the Seattle wharf) on Friday, May 17th. I planned and chose the northerly U.S. route myself specifically to include Spokane Valley, Washington (Wendy, our home) and locations in Minnesota (family, friends). My East Coast destination is nominally a beach in New Jersey, though I anticipate the possibility of that changing slightly over time as I become more familiar with conditions.
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