I looked over my map and route info as I rested today in Peru, and to date, I have covered a total of 351 miles in 16 days of walking. I now have approximately 84 more miles to walk to get to the Wisconsin border. I spent a couple of hours this morning having coffee and donuts with the locals at my host Bob Ankiewicz's cafe in downtown Peru. I also had a visit from my wife Marie who made an emergency shoe resupply run. It seems that the couple of rainy day walks where my shoes and I got totally saturated, blew out the side stitching in one of my pairs of shoes. With only four more days remaining to walk, I had her bring out my well traveled old hikers and walkers as replacements. They should provide more give and more room for my somewhat swollen and blistered feet. That now makes two blowouts on this northern phase of my walk; one pair of shoes and one tire (actually just a flat tire) on my three wheel cart, which was repaired using a tube sealer. I had Marie treat me to lunch as a reward for her resupply efforts. I will continue taking it easy today and tonight (at the risk of being labeled a slacker) and will be up and on the road again at dawn. I hope that the light I am seeing at the end of the tunnel is real and not an oncoming train.
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