Beowulf Beware!

Welcome to Beowawe. Just passing through?

Beowawe was officially founded in 1868 with the arrival of the railroad. The town reached its peak around 1881 with a population of 60 people. In 1909, a power plant was even built in the town but by 1916, like many ghost towns, the boom ended and many of the residents had moved on. Currently, Beowawe is once again tied to energy production, as it is home to both a geothermal power plant and a large propane tank farm near the railroad.

These days Beowawe is making headlines for being the next lucky eligible site for nuclear waste dumping! So get comfortable, buy some digital cable, and let the glowing rocks lull you to sleep!

Three Days Distance: 15.56 miles

Total Distance Crossed: 380.08 miles

Beowawe, Nevada

In other news, King Kekaulike High School defeated the typically far superior Iolani High from Oahu in a last-ditch scramble hail-mary throw of destiny in the closing seconds. Here is what the Maui Times has to say:

King Kekaulike defeated 'Iolani, 38-37, in the First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA Division II State Football semifinals at War Memorial Stadium last night in front of approximately 1,500 fans.

Na Ali'i (7-3-1) advance to play Kaua'i for the Division II title Friday at 5 p.m at the Aloha Stadium. 'Iolani, the defending state champion, dropped to 6-6-1.

"I can't even believe it," Bangasan said. "I just chucked it up there."

The ball was originally intended to go to Abafo, until the play broke up.

"I saw it not working, and I thought it was over," Abafo said. "Then I saw him pick it up. Then I started waving my hands. That's why I have these white gloves."

In tribute, i am considering naming my first son "That's why i have these white gloves"

more to follow, please advise.

Open Letter to the Unicorns

its starting to rain, and from what people are saying, it won't be stopping. we're dealing with only handfuls of sunny days from here on out. also, will smith's movie "Hitch" is really and truly terrible. i wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemies, namely the gang of unsightly unicorns that steal my toilet paper and wrap up their poops in them to leave in my new microwave.
i'm going to kill you guys. you and that blasted cameron turner.

checkpoint: 43.21 miles

total distance crossed: 364.52 miles

The Rev.

i knew this walk would produce some accomplishments of real quality. i am proud to announce that at 6:35 pm tonight, i was officially ordained the reverend william r. weston by the ministry of the universal church of life. so not only am i back from vacation, but i'm a reverend for life now. this is way sweeter than a tattoo!

i am almost reluctant to let you all in on how easy it was for me, but i think i can still be proud of my freshly earned title and fill you all in. The church of life has ordained over 20 million ministers since 1959, and you can actually become a reverend online in this day and age. check out http://www.themonastery.org for more information. it cost something like 9 dollars, but technically you don't even need the certificate to be an internet reverand. i just figure if anybody wants to get baptised or married, they might want some paperwork that proves it.

so who wants to be baptised? friends and family will most certainly be receiving discounts on my services as a reverand, so let me know. feel free to have babies now, you've got my number!

four days in colorado provided the most calming scenery in months, i had an entirely new perception of the state coming off my time in san francisco. perhaps i didn't realize the magnitude of the city out here, nothing like a little open space to rearrange my memory. i look forward to breaking out of this nevada desert, and into some real heartland. unfortunately i need to buy my fifth pedometer, as the fourth was lost in airport transit. an entirely new system needs to be implemented, and some have suggested i write the pedometer company in hopes of a sponsorship. anybody interested in helping to make this happen? an outsiders view of the project might seem more convincing than a letter from some reverend threatening not to take another step out of nevada...

john frusciante's prune juice spilled on my new fire blanket

lords and ladies,

i am on vacation. enough dust bunnies have suffered up through the black plastic vacuum pipe that i justify a brief hiatus to a land of mirth and worth and girth. fat tramp sessions are in order with the eleven year old asians, if you know what i mean. don't call the cops.

everybody would be doing themselves a huge favor to check out the new tune by julia massey, an independent singer/songwriter out of brooklyn- she's got her music up for free on myspace, and her new song "surfing on an astral plane" is like a hundred dollars in your ice cream cone. check out her plans to tour cities this summer in the name of indie music and alternative fuels.

find that at www.myspace.com/juliamassey

in regards to how i'm roughly mapping this journey out, i've basically plotted a path using mapquest from bridge to bridge, but i am cheating some bits, as i want to virtually "pass" through cities that i wouldn't necessarily hit straight as an arrow from san francisco. when i do finally reach denver, i might actually be in wyoming, the longitude is less important to me, if you understand. the journey is a trip from west to east, a straight shot on paper, but a constellation of stops along the way in my noggin.

three day's distance: 22.50 miles

total distance crossed: 324.31 miles

m.o.n. nevada

The Accidental Marathon

Two Days Distance: 26.20 miles

Total Distance Covered: 301.81

Mill City, Nevada



"time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
and delves the parallels in beauty's brow
feeds on the rarities of nature's truth
and nothing stands but for his scythe to mow
and yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand
praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand"

This record won't be touched. 26 miles in two days.. how has this even happened? i'm walking marathons by accident on my fourth pedometer in two months. the three hundreth mile has passed, and nevada is easily a third out of the way. so now i'm going to go lay by the bay. what do you say?

IKEA is pregnant

the third pedometer is gone. this whole system is flawed, which isnt as bad as Trent Reznor's whole existence being flawed, but it's still a drag when you want to walk across the freakin US. you have to wonder how many times you'd manage to lose it walking through the desert. i'm going to go with NEVER personally, seeing as how nothing happens in Nevada in between gas stations, besides the lives of ground snakes and weevles and that kind of thing. My next project is going to be to live in IKEA for an entire week, eating swedish meatballs and cinnamon rolls and hanging out in the fully assembled kitchens, waiting to be offered an official sponsorship. i'm a quarter norweigan after all, i thought they'd notice that the second i walked in that joint.

the fourth pedometer is coming. and so is manhattan. maybe even in 2007, which is approaching exponentially faster than hale-bop. also, i'm still very much alive.

pity miles: 21 miles

total distance crossed 275.61 miles

lovelock, nevada

here are some rad bros moving their mining camp to lovelock. they obviously had the right idea. about two thousand people have joined them to make lovelock the pride of pershing county. 10 percent of the population is pacific islander, so you might find a spam musubi, and 7 percent is native american, so you might see one of them on television and the subtitles might read "native american chanting..."

walk this way

the walking man walks..

potluck: 31.25 miles

total distance covered: 254.61 miles

the desert.