On 4/16 I re-did a walk I did last week where I missed a street. I thought that taking that street would turn a 7 miler into a 9 miler but in fact the extra streets added only .75 miles. But it’s a nice walk, right through the very ritziest heart of Mill Creek. I did get a few stink-eye stares from the locals, who recognized me as an inferior (not a resident of Mill Creek). Tough.
On Friday I took a slightly different route:
This was only 5.5 miles but also rather pleasant. Not quite so ritzy so I raised no eyebrows.
A little rainy today. Jan has been busily making face masks for healthcare workers at Evergreen Hospital, where she works, but she took a break so we could walk up to the local drug store and get a heat pack for her sore back – sore from many hours hunched over the sewing machine.
The world is crashing down around us. We need to continue the shut-down until the virus is under control and that, I am afraid, will not be until late next year at the earliest. In the meantime we absolutely need the fed gov to step in to support us, coordinate supplies and testing apparatus and strategies – and we have, tragically, an insane authoritarian who claims total authority but no responsibility.
So I guess we can walk until the virus comes for us and takes us, gentle, into that not-so-good night.