Virtual Walking Tour #3

So I devised a virtual walking tour.

We're walking across America. Anyone who wants to join us can. Keep track of how far you walk at the gym or around the block. Put on that day's comments how many miles you've covered. I'll post them on the side bar with the others.

I picked Madawaska, Maine for the starting point, because of its northeastern most point on the map of the United States. Not exactly certain where we'll end up. There'll be a lot of miles.

My other two walkers decided to include their spinning also, so have ripped past me and left me in their virtual dust. *choke cough hack*

You, too, can be on the road -- leaving me behind. Even the late starters.

Virtual Walking Tour Second Call

So I devised a virtual walking tour.

Anyone who wants to join me can. We're walking across America. If you join me, keep track of how far you walk at the gym or around the block. Just put on that day's post how many miles you've covered. I'll post them on the side bar with the others.

I picked Madawaska, Maine for the starting point, because of its northeastern most point on the map of the United States.

My other two walkers decided to include their spinning also, so have ripped past Caribou, Presque Isle, and are headed for Houlton. So, as I figured would be the case, they have left me in their virtual dust. *choke cough hack*

You, too, can be on the road -- leaving me behind. Even the late starters.

Come join us.
See the sights.

Karl Urban - Pathfinder - Seventh Post

PATHFINDER

You are probably wondering if I'm going to say anything about Star Trek. I am. But until I'm finished with it here are some pictures from the movie PATHFINDER.


Pathfinder, a remake of the 1987 Norwegian movie Ofelas, opened in theaters on September 8, 2004. In this movie, Karl plays the grown version of a Norse boy left behind on the Eastern Shore after a shipwreck. He was raised by the very native inhabitants his people had intended to destroy. When the Vikings return to finish what they started, Karl's character, now known as Ghost, fights to defend those who are now his family.

• Karl Urban - First Post
• Karl Urban - The Two Towers - Second Post
• Karl Urban - The Return of the King - Third Post
• Karl Urban - The Bourne Supremacy - Fourth Post
• Karl Urban - The Chronicles of Riddick - Fifth Post
• Karl Urban - Doom - Sixth Post
  

Virtual walking tour posts...

1. Virtual Walking Tour
2. Walking/running across America
3. Gliding across America

Virtual Walking Tour

GETTING INTO SHAPE

I have a membership at the gym. Yep. The gym.

I've been there off and on over the past few months, was doing pretty good for a while, but then got sidetracked doing other things.

I want to get back at it, but staring at myself in a mirror is so... eh!

Watching the little TV perched on the treadmill makes me feel like a zombie. Listening to music is a little better, but after a while even that gets stale. So I thought why not make it interesting?

A few years ago I did a pretend hike to California, going around the blocks in my town. I looked up, as best I could, what the places looked like if I were really hiking along the highway. I even looked up what historical things applied. Then I wrote in a journal as if I were really taking the trip.

Why not do something like that again?

So I devised a virtual walking tour.

Anyone who wants to join me can. I'm going to keep track of the miles--my miles, anyway--and post it on the side bar of the blog. And maybe a few tid bits I find out about the area.

If you join me just put on the comments how many miles you've covered. If you turn out to be a regular I'll even keep track of your miles. I'm certain everyone will be faster than I am. I'll be lucky to do a quarter of a mile a day at first.

So you'll be on to the next destination long before me. Only watch out. I just might pass you up. Ha! You never know.

I picked Madawaska, Maine for my starting point, because of its northeastern most point on the map of the United States.

MADAWASKA, MAINE

Madawaska [mad-ah-WAH-skah] in Aroostook County, home to native Micmac people, it was also settled in the 1750's by Acadian exiles.

The town was named for the river whose Indian name has been interpreted to mean "having its outlet among the reeds" and "worn out grass (land)." A monument with a large cross marks the landing of the Acadians.