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  • Eldee36
    Eldee36 Posts: 109 Member
    Mile 97.64
    Stopped by Old Man Willow to rest (ca. 5:30). Rescued by Tom Bombadil (ca. 6:00 p.m.).
    Nearing Tom Bombadil's house. Stars are out (ca. 7 p.m.).

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  • CaliSpooky
    CaliSpooky Posts: 39 Member
    Mile 15.5

    I've Reached Stock Road and Begin to sing. Walk through a deeply cloven track between tall trees.
  • Eldee36
    Eldee36 Posts: 109 Member
    Mile 150.7
    Headed east. Ground dropping slowly. Quiet and peaceful.

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  • byrdiebee
    byrdiebee Posts: 85 Member
    Eldee, you caught up to me and passed me while I lingered with Tom!

    Mile 133-on the East road headed to Bree.

    Hello, Cali, glad to see you on the road as well!
  • byrdiebee
    byrdiebee Posts: 85 Member
    Mile 136- I reached Bree and met Strider. Now I'm walking with Strider!!!!!! *swoons*
  • Eldee36
    Eldee36 Posts: 109 Member
    Byrdie, that was so rude of me to pass without stopping to say hello. Hope our paths cross again soon so I can make it up to you with some good fellowship.

    Hi, Cali! :)
  • CaliSpooky
    CaliSpooky Posts: 39 Member
    Hi Guys!

    I'm now at 23 - Road rolls up and down.
  • byrdiebee
    byrdiebee Posts: 85 Member
    Mile 144- ON a 5 mile trek to CHetwood, No living things all day. :~(
  • libby2208
    libby2208 Posts: 41 Member
    I'm feeling very motivated, and have covered 7.5 miles already :)

    Currently, I'm looking back at the lights of Hobbiton from the first slopes of the Green Hill Country. Hopefully, I'll be having my frugal supper in a birch grove by days end :)
  • Eldee36
    Eldee36 Posts: 109 Member
    Mile 178.41
    Have entered western edge of Midgewater Marshes. Will set up camp soon.

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  • Jaessa
    Jaessa Posts: 122 Member
    I hope you brought your insect repellant along!
  • AmeliaJ92
    AmeliaJ92 Posts: 586 Member
    I'm back! 53 miles in.
  • libby2208
    libby2208 Posts: 41 Member
    Took me a little longer to earn my frugal supper than I thought it would, but I finally got to eat!
    I am now 11 miles along. Yay me :)
  • AmeliaJ92
    AmeliaJ92 Posts: 586 Member
    55 miles. I'm out of the woods and the sun is shining! I think I'll try to reach Bree by New Year's Eve. Only 80 miles to go and 15 weeks left would put me at a goal of 5.3 miles per week. As long as I work out at least twice a week, this goal should be too easy.
  • CaliSpooky
    CaliSpooky Posts: 39 Member
    I'm now at 33 miles...

    Road ahead runs fairly straight and level. Behind them it curves slightly. BLACK RIDER. Sam and Pippin hide in a hollow. Frodo behind tree by road (ca.5 p.m.).
  • byrdiebee
    byrdiebee Posts: 85 Member
    Lots of people on the road! What fun!

    Mile 156- Walking through the quiet of Chetwood.

    *eyes boggle* LIBBY! You've met The Doctor?
  • AmeliaJ92
    AmeliaJ92 Posts: 586 Member
    57 miles.
  • CaliSpooky
    CaliSpooky Posts: 39 Member
    38.7 miles

    Go on in twilight. Begin to sing. (ca. 7:00 p.m.)
  • byrdiebee
    byrdiebee Posts: 85 Member
    Mile 172 in the rain today- very hobbity feeling with my hood up! Tomorrow I enter the Midgewater Marshes, eek!
  • Jaessa
    Jaessa Posts: 122 Member
    Bring your bug repellent, Byrdie!
  • CaliSpooky
    CaliSpooky Posts: 39 Member
    44.8 miles.

    Wood more dense, and lane went lower, running in a fold of hills, with hazel on the slopes alongside. Pippin quickly becomes sleepy.
  • AmeliaJ92
    AmeliaJ92 Posts: 586 Member
    59 miles.
  • CaliSpooky
    CaliSpooky Posts: 39 Member
    54.3 miles

    Still in the trees, they stop for lunch (ca. 2:00 p.m.). Their singing is cut by the cry of a Black Rider, and they leave (ca. 3:00 p.m.).
  • AmeliaJ92
    AmeliaJ92 Posts: 586 Member
    61 miles. Edges of fields worked by Farmer Maggot.
  • byrdiebee
    byrdiebee Posts: 85 Member
    Mile 199- Leaving the Marshes behind, yay! I can see the Weather Hills ahead. I think I will tackle walking some bigger hill to celebrate! I hope to walk the trail up and down Stone Mountain for my Weathertop walk. :)
  • AmeliaJ92
    AmeliaJ92 Posts: 586 Member
    63 miles. Farmer Maggot's house.
  • CaliSpooky
    CaliSpooky Posts: 39 Member
    61.5 miles.

    Edges of fields worked by Farmer Maggot.
  • byrdiebee
    byrdiebee Posts: 85 Member
    Mile 210- next mile I will "Camp by a stream, among stunted alder trees. Moon waxing."

    I've started walking a long hill near my home to prepare for the Weathertop climb. To celebrate walking 240 miles, I will walk up Georgia's Stone Mountain as my Weathertop-on or about mile 240. I am looking for steeper and steeper hills between now and then.

    What thrills me is that the hill I am walking now is so much easier than it was back when I started. Walking and squats are really changing me for the better! Now to find an even steeper hill!
  • CaliSpooky
    CaliSpooky Posts: 39 Member
    You're doing great Byrdiebee! I love the idea of climbing a mountain as you go up Weathertop,

    I'm now 63.8 miles... Farmer Maggot's house (yay!) and buildings: brick with thatched roofs, surrounded by a high wall cut by a wooden gate from the lane. Eat. (Est. time there: 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.: full dark when they leave).
  • CaliSpooky
    CaliSpooky Posts: 39 Member
    Mile 73 - Crickhollow - YAY!!

    Spend the night. "A Conspiracy Unmasked"

    I will leave Crickhollow soon after 6:00 a.m. Foggy. Ride ponies slowly.

    I never realized just how large the Shire is.
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