Back to your story

I guess I will back track a little. It's been a while since I have written. Sometimes I wonder why I am writing this, and then I remember it's really for you. Somehow, I know this is more than another one of your adventures. It's

as though it could be a turning point in your life. That can be very frightening to me. I feel it, yet want this trip to be just another one of your "walk abouts". I know in a way only a mother can know that there is much more to this journey than a personal challenge...much more than raising money for a cause dear to your heart.

I posted this photo to illustrate how you

can have your Jed sense of humor no matter where you are, or under what conditions. With a title of "Showdown with a Calf" , you made light of running along this incredible lonely stretch of highway. Knowing the terrain you ran through in Kansas, with the blazing heat that we have had this summer, I can't imagine laughing about anything, though the little guy does look forlorn.

Actually I was thinking.....he saw you...he instinctively knew that you were trying to escape Kansas.....he knew what his future as a Kansas cow would be...and in that instant, he made a break for the breach in the fence, and was wordlessly standing there begging you to take him with you.......

Either that, or he just came out of the pasture to wonder (if cows do such things) what the heck some ditzy guy was doing running along in all that heat in such a hurry to go to the endless horizon.

MOO-O-O-O-O..........