{"id":75,"date":"2015-03-18T22:41:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T02:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharett.org\/?p=75"},"modified":"2024-04-02T20:43:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T00:43:15","slug":"walking-journey-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Walking journey 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatherbeard.com\/ruthy\/Ep031%20-%20Alex%27s%20walk%20in%20MA%20and%20VT%20-%202015-05-20.mp3\">Listen to the radio show<\/a> of the first five days of my walk!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going on a walking journey from April 17 to 25, 2015, around Western Massachusetts and possibly into neighboring states.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve created a website to help me plan the route and find hosts at <a href=\"http:\/\/journey.sharett.org\">journey.sharett.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last April I spent four days walking from my house to western Florence, Huntington, Easthampton, Mass. and back home &#8211; about 35 miles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-17-13.53.36-e1426731761757.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-78 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-17-13.53.36-e1426731761757-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"2014-04-17 13.53.36\" width=\"273\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-17-13.53.36-e1426731761757-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-17-13.53.36-e1426731761757-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-17-13.53.36-e1426731761757-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-17-13.53.36-e1426731761757.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a>total.\u00a0 Each night I spent with a different friend, and each day I walked, sometimes with friends, sometimes meeting new people along the way, sometimes being barked at, mapping new trails and roads that I found and adding them to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\">Open Street Map<\/a>. Most of the time I was off of major roads, walking old woods roads and sometimes bushwhacking through fields, forests and the occasional swamp!<\/p>\n<p>This year I&#8217;m not quite sure what the journey will bring, but I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting new people and seeing the beauty of the early spring.<\/p>\n<p>My route is mostly set, but I&#8217;m still looking for a host in Williamsburg, MA.\u00a0 If you&#8217;d like to host me for a night, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/journey.sharett.org\">journey.sharett.org<\/a> and fill out the form at the bottom of the page, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharett.org\/?page_id=80\">contact me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to walk with me for part of the journey, or want me to deliver letters to people along the route, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharett.org\/?page_id=80\">be in touch<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures from last year&#8217;s journey:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-16-12.10.58.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-16-12.10.58-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2014-04-16 12.10.58\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-16-12.10.58-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-16-12.10.58-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-16-12.10.58-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-16-12.10.58.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-16-14.27.38.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-16-14.27.38-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2014-04-16 14.27.38\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-16-14.27.38-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-16-14.27.38-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2014-04-16-14.27.38.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Listen to the radio show of the first five days of my walk! I&#8217;m going on a walking journey from April 17 to 25, 2015, around Western Massachusetts and possibly into neighboring states.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve created a website to help me plan the route and find hosts at journey.sharett.org. Last April I spent four days &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/?p=75\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walking journey 2015<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}