- Time of past OR future Camino
- First: Camino Francés 2002; most recent: Norte/Primitivo 2019
I started walking the American Discovery Trail back in 2019. My plan was to walk the southern option between Cincinnati, Ohio and Denver, Colorado that fall, and then to fly to Delaware in February 2020 and make the full coast-to-coast walk, including the northern option between Ohio and Denver.
The first leg went great. It's harder walking in the US than in Europe--the downgrade from espresso in cafés to gas station coffee is (literally) a bitter one--but everything went generally according to plan.
The second leg started out equally well. I was blessed with great weather in that February/March chunk, especially when following the C&O through Maryland and then for the climb into West Virginia. And then... COVID happened. The walk abruptly ended in western West Virginia. I returned for short stints later on, to make it as far as Cincinnati. That allowed me to at least know that I had walked from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rockies, but it was also far from being finished.
Well, I'm finally getting back to it. On June 28, I'll fly from Portland back to Cincinnati. My plan is to follow the American Discovery Trail as far as western Nebraska, and then I'm going to shift over to the historic Oregon Trail and follow that home.
That leads me kind of through these places (among many others):
Anyway, I'm excited to get back on the road. Happy to connect with American pilgrims anywhere along the route if we overlap!
The first leg went great. It's harder walking in the US than in Europe--the downgrade from espresso in cafés to gas station coffee is (literally) a bitter one--but everything went generally according to plan.
The second leg started out equally well. I was blessed with great weather in that February/March chunk, especially when following the C&O through Maryland and then for the climb into West Virginia. And then... COVID happened. The walk abruptly ended in western West Virginia. I returned for short stints later on, to make it as far as Cincinnati. That allowed me to at least know that I had walked from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rockies, but it was also far from being finished.
Well, I'm finally getting back to it. On June 28, I'll fly from Portland back to Cincinnati. My plan is to follow the American Discovery Trail as far as western Nebraska, and then I'm going to shift over to the historic Oregon Trail and follow that home.
That leads me kind of through these places (among many others):
- Ohio: Cincinnati (sort of), Oxford
- Indiana: Richmond, Muncie, Peru, Rochester
- Illinois: south of Chicago, Joliet, Seneca, Ottawa
- Iowa: Davenport, Cedar Rapids, Cedar Falls, Des Moines, Atlantic
- Nebraska: Omaha, Lincoln, Stromsburg, Aurora, Kearney, North Platte, Gering
- Wyoming: Fort Laramie, Douglas, Casper, Jeffrey City, Atlantic City, Kemmerer
- Idaho: Cokeville, Soda Springs, Pocatello, Twin Falls, Boise
- Oregon: Ontario, La Grande, Pendleton, The Dalles, Hood River
- Introductory overview of the ADT
- Through Delaware and Eastern Maryland
- Through Western Maryland
- Across West Virginia
- Through Ohio
Anyway, I'm excited to get back on the road. Happy to connect with American pilgrims anywhere along the route if we overlap!