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This web site was a working journal of an Adventure Across America… on foot, on US Highway Route 6 - Coast to Coast. Updates to the web site will not be as frequent as they had been. With that in mind, we invite you to join our online mailing list - which will allow us to "send word" when anything significant happens on the web site. |
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Last Update: December 6, 2005 [below]/ October Updates 2005 "[After Travis and I finished our Route6Walk]… my wife, Pat, and I took the train home from LA to New York. We took the longer southern route because we wanted to spend a night in New Orleans, where we spent our honeymoon - more than 30 years ago. But the train was so late that we never got a chance to actually get into the city. Who knew it would have been our last chance to see New Orleans, the way it once was." [thoughts in retrospect] 6 DECEMBER 2005. It's been a year since Travis and I finished our adventure. I think of our travels and the people we met nearly every day. Travis and I got together a few weeks ago to talk about our book on the journey. If all goes well - the book will be coming out late next year or very early in 2007. That's a lot longer than I wanted to wait, but it's not really our call. Meanwhile, I'm still writing stories for the book and Travis is working the photographs. It will be a rewriting of some of the stories that appeared the papers as well as a number of new stories. Hopefully we'll tie them all together and come up with a theme that will describe the America I saw. Or… maybe it will just be a fun book to read. We still get notes and messages from people we met during the trip. They usually make my day. It's great knowing that people really do care. I also get asked, every so often, to talk to local groups and organizations about the trip. On average I give about one talk a month. I think I've finally given up on trying to send a thank-you to everyone who helped us along the way. There are just too many names and I know there are even more that I never recorded. I feel lousy about that, but if I haven't done it by now I guess it won't get done. It was always something I found too easy to put off till tomorrow. I'm toying with the idea of listing all the names I have in one chapter of the book. It may not work out, but it makes me feel better for the moment. If anyone has any story suggestions for the book, let me know.
10.10.05 Route6Walk News. Joe Hurley's Adventure Across America was featured in the Summer 2005 Edition of American Road [Vol III No2]. Copies of the magazine are available by contacting the publisher. It's worth noting that the U.S. Route 6 Tourist Association is offering a one year complimentary "gift" subscription of American Road to all new members.
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