May 13

Doug Goodman, John and Ruth's oldest son, joined us today and walked 6 miles. Doug lives in East End and is the Student Ministry pastor at East Union Missionary Baptist Church. We started off in a slight fog, but it quickly burned off and the sun came out after about an hour.

 

We had a first today, our first bat roadkill. I guess its sonar wasn't working.

 

After Doug had left us, we walked on until we came to a Sinclair service station/grocery store. I bought John and me a Nestles Chocolate Crunch Bar. They come highly recommended. As we were leaving, a man that was pumping gas said, "Are you picking up the trash?". I might explain that a litter crew has been through here recently and there are plastic bags of trash along the highway waiting to be picked up. We said, "No were are not picking up the trash, but walking Coast to Coast for Habitat for Humanity". We went on to explain the details and the man, who was joined by another man, were impressed at what we had accomplished. They told us to be careful and we were on our way.

 

Today Doug found a compass. The type that fits on the dashboard of a car. We determined that we were going the right way. Doug also found a bungee cord. John and I found .40 cents. Stay tuned....