Friday, April 25th

We started at Alma School Road and Main St. in Mesa today. We thought we would have side walk all the way, but we ran out of sidewalk about 12 miles into our walk. As we walked along Main St. in Mesa, we noticed a large number of old 1950's style motels or motor courts as they called them then. Some had been remodeled, but many had not and even the old neon signs remained. I think Main St. was once the major street through Mesa long before the more modern highways were built. Someone needs to do a documentary film about these old motels or at least uncover their history. It would be very interesting. On we walked to Idaho St. in Apache Junction, our stopping point. In the past 3 days, we have walked through Surprise, Sun City, Peoria, Glendale, Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa and Apache Junction. We walked 17.7 miles today, not bad for two grey-headed men. Stay tuned.