The #GreatWalk Recap

Cale and I completed our 100 mile #GreatWalk from Bellevue, WA to Great Wolf Lodge. We live-blogged on Twitter as we walked, and I have recorded our tweets on this blog in chronological order to make them easy to read. Thanks for sharing our journey with us!

• Day 1: We depart!
• Day 2: A long walk to the airport
• Day 3: Getting tired and frustrated
• Day 4: A candy discovery
• Day 5: Skirting the military base
• Day 6: A wet and rainy day
• Day 7: Into the wilderness
• Day 8: We arrive at Great Wolf!
• Day 9: A day of rest
• Day 10: The trip home

Some interesting external links about the adventure:

• Amazing photographs by Great Wolf photographer Shanna Paxton
• An article about the walk in the Bellevue Reporter
• Reflections on the walk on the Great Wolf Lodge blog
• A blog post by Dad Logic
• Weekly search challenge for the #GreatWalk by Dan Russell

#GreatWalk: Day 10

[This post includes my tweets (@jteevan) from the tenth day (July 27, 2014) of Cale and my 100 mile walk to Great Wolf!]

#GreatWalk: Day 9

[This post includes my tweets (@jteevan) from the ninth day (July 26, 2014) of Cale and my 100 mile walk to Great Wolf!]

#GreatWalk: Day 8

[This post includes my tweets (@jteevan) from the eighth day (July 25, 2014) of Cale and my 100 mile walk to Great Wolf!]

#GreatWalk: Day 7

[This post includes my tweets (@jteevan) from the seventh day (July 24, 2014) of Cale and my 100 mile walk to Great Wolf!]

#GreatWalk: Day 6

[This post includes my tweets (@jteevan) from the sixth day (July 23, 2014) of Cale and my 100 mile walk to Great Wolf!]

#GreatWalk: Day 5

[This post includes my tweets (@jteevan) from the fifth day (July 22, 2014) of Cale and my 100 mile walk to Great Wolf!]

#GreatWalk: Day 4

[This post includes my tweets (@jteevan) from the fourth day (July 21, 2014) of Cale and my 100 mile walk to Great Wolf!]

#GreatWalk: Day 3

[This post includes my tweets (@jteevan) from the third day (July 20, 2014) of Cale and my 100 mile walk to Great Wolf!]

#GreatWalk: Day 2

[This post includes my tweets (@jteevan) from the second day (July 19, 2014) of Cale and my 100 mile walk to Great Wolf!]

#GreatWalk: Day 1

[This post includes my tweets (@jteevan) from the first day (July 18, 2014) of Cale and my 100 mile walk to Great Wolf!]

Live Blogging Our 100 Mile Walk

After months of planning, Cale and I start our 100 mile walk from Bellevue, WA to Great Wolf in Grand Mound, WA today! Friends and family will see us off with a bon voyage party at 4pm.

Watch Us Walk

I will be live blogging as we walk on Twitter. Follow @jteevan or search for #GreatWalk for updates. Note that you do not need a Twitter account to see the tweets; just click on either of the two preceding links. [Update: The tweets we posted have been collected here.]

Walk Background 

• What we are doing
• How we prepared
• Our packing list

The Route

We will follow this schedule:

• The first day: We leave home (live blog of Day 1)
• Day two: The airport (live blog of Day 2)
• Day three: A casino (live blog of Day 3)
• Day four: Tacoma (live blog of Day 4)
• Day five: A military base (live blog of Day 5)
• Day six: Olympia (live blog of Day 6)
• Day seven: A lake (live blog of Day 7)
• The final leg: Great Wolf (live blog of Day 8 and Day 9)
• The trip home: On a train (live blog of Day 10)

100 Mile Walk: The Trip Home

[This post is part of a series detailing Cale and my plans for each leg of  our 100 mile walk to Great Wolf. Our goal is to establish a safe route that follows sidewalks and trails as much as possible, and provides good places to stop, refuel, and refresh along the way. We actively solicit your suggestions if you know the area we will be walking through.]

Start: Great Wolf Lodge
End: Centralia Amtrak Station
Total distance: 6.4 miles

After a full day of no walking (but lots of MagiQuesting and water sliding), it will be time to head home. No, we are not walking another 100 miles home! Instead, we will take a short walk on our weary legs to the local Amtrak station and catch the train to Seattle.

Packing for Our 100 Mile Walk

Good news! Everything Cale and I plan to bring with us on our 100 mile walk to Great Wolf fits into a single backpack. I'll be able to carry the pack on my own for most of the walk, and Cale can relieve me occasionally. The total weight of our inventory (including the clothes we will be wearing) is 18 pounds. It includes:

100 Mile Walk: The Final Leg

[This post is part of a series detailing Cale and my plans for each leg of  our 100 mile walk to Great Wolf. Our goal is to establish a safe route that follows sidewalks and trails as much as possible, and provides good places to stop, refuel, and refresh along the way. We actively solicit your suggestions if you know the area we will be walking through.]

Start: Offut Lake Resort
End: Great Wolf Lodge
Total distance: 14.6 miles

Friday, July 25, one week after setting out from Bellevue, Cale and I will finish our 100 mile walk to Great Wolf!

100 Mile Walk: Day Seven

[This post is part of a series detailing Cale and my plans for each leg of  our 100 mile walk to Great Wolf. Our goal is to establish a safe route that follows sidewalks and trails as much as possible, and provides good places to stop, refuel, and refresh along the way. We actively solicit your suggestions if you know the area we will be walking through.]

Start: Holiday Inn Express, Lacey
End: Offut Lake Resort
Total distance: 11.8 miles

On Day Seven, Cale and I veer away from I-5, in part because there are no hotels along the highway between Lacey and Great Wolf, and in part because we are excited to stay in a Cozy Cabin on Offut Lake. Today's walk and destination may be our prettiest. It will certainly be our most pastoral. We will need to stock up on water and snacks for the rode, because there is a long stretch where I do not expect us to encounter convenience stores or gas stations. The directions here are slightly more detailed because I worry I might loose cell service along the way (and thus the ability to navigate dynamically as we walk from my phone).

100 Mile Walk: Day Six

 

[This post is part of a series detailing Cale and my plans for each leg of  our 100 mile walk to Great Wolf. Our goal is to establish a safe route that follows sidewalks and trails as much as possible, and provides good places to stop, refuel, and refresh along the way. We actively solicit your suggestions if you know the area we will be walking through.]

Start: Hampton Inn & Suites DuPont
End: Holiday Inn Express, Lacey
Total distance: 14.1 miles

On Day Six Cale and I will spend most of the day walking west. Nothing particularly interesting stands out about Day Six as I explore the details, but it will be fun to get close to Olympia, our state capital. And it is our last day tracking I-5; on Day Seven we veer south and head off on our own.