The Fuel Behind the Journey

We are pretty much surviving California on Subway! We’ve had to go cookless for a variety of reasons related to urban walking, and that means subway is usually the healthiest bang for your buck you can find! Most meals are $20 a person! Even the fresh and ready food at the grocery stores totals or exceeds a cheap footlong it seems! 

   But this is not us complaining; we are giving thanks. Thanks to all of you out there, supporting this journey. This has been our most expensive round of the walk, and not one we could have made in the earlier journey before so many of you who have since followed along and deemed it a worthy cause to contribute to. 

   Because of you amazing friends, we have finally been able to pull away from cheaper, empty calories, and meet our fitness goals! I have gone so far as to lose 30 lbs of excess fat since starting this segment, eating leaner proteins and filling my appetite with vegetables over carbs!

   You’re also helping us use the bathroom, I don’t even want to count how many times a day, when we have to pay to go.

   Often it seems like just as our bank account begins to plummet, a couple of you will respond in appreciation to one of my essays with a gift of thanks. I can’t tell you how much it means. 

   I can’t tell you how much it means to me that it means what it does to so many of you as to keep us afloat within this crazy life. It’s not just financial. You remind us that what we’re doing matters. 

   In case you needed to hear it yourself, what YOU’RE doing MATTERS! It’s why our work and walk are possible. And if it doesn’t matter to anyone else… it at least matters to us. 

   Love you guys.