Joseph Littles-Nguzo Saba Charter School

We entered and left Emporia VA. today... We passed many Historic Markers about Confederate soldiers and sympathizers who lived and visited the area... There are so many in such a short distance we could only photograph them... trying to keep up with Elder baba Geuka who strolled along his mission path... I'm hoping to find time to read them later...

We are in Stoney Creek Virgina tonight.... I'm tired and my feet are flat.... I had to do laundry again because my clothes get wet from sweat and do not dry for days... I had to wear sweaty clothes the other day... I got a new pair of sneakers this morning  'cause I ruined the two pair I started with... My last pair started to flap as I ended walking night before last...  Over all the walking has hotter than expected and we sweat a lot... The roads are narrow in many places....

Most of the trucks that passed us along the way... except those in Fl.... carried logs... Hwy #301 is a real country road in stretches..... There was shade patches from trees 50 ft high and there has been long streches of road with no shade in all states....

The truckers in Virgina are kinder than any others we encountered along the way... In Florida we had long streches of wide road and side walks along US Hwy #1... In South Georgia along Rt #17.. We had Bike paths along the road in many places... In Georgia we had little space along the shoulder of the road....

The space to walk in along the road in some places was dangerous... We step into the high grass when the trucks come by...  In South Carolina along US #301 the road narrowed and we walked alot in the grass there.... as cars and truck passed...

Same for southern part of North Carolina... Southerrn part of Virginia has the best walking road and truck drivers along US #301... The truckers in Va gave us room to walk by moving closer to the center line in the raod... The truckers in the other states we traveled throught did not extend us the same safety margin..  and weather was great... It was cooler in the morning as we left NC and was most comfortable for walking when we entered into Va...