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Old 03-11-2004, 02:37 AM   #1304
Lyta_Underhill
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Lyta: Merry & Pippin have the oil all ready for you...and Boromir says he'll keep his lap empty till you show up!!
Woohoo! I'm walking as fast as I can! *trudges faster* I'm within spitting distance of the Redhorn Pass (746 miles), and it rather feels like the uphill trudge it is at that point. Spring storms have postponed my walks a lot and I've even spent some of the time in the storm cellar. I am lucky, though, in that I am *not* in a vastly cold area like Pyroclastic (welcome back to the melee, by the way, and we'll leave the Lamps of Fëanor on for ya! ) And good to see you, too, Helen! And yea for Estelyn, who made it safely across the Nimrodel Rope Bridge! (I'll let Pippin hold my hand for that one when I get there!)

This undertaking is interesting and refreshing in a time-displaced, imaginative way when I think of everyone at different stages of the same journey, each having unique, yet thematically unified experiences! One amusing thing I've noticed now that the weather has warmed up in southern middle Tennessee--I no longer wear several layers of clothing--coat, cloak, etc., and now I walk with Sting exposed for all the rednecks on the mile and a half long road I walk to see. Not one of them has *ever* mentioned it or even looked cross-eyed at it. I never mention it, and I often stop and converse with them, all the while wearing my "One Ring" on a chain, Sting, my Frodo vest and often the knee breeches too...perhaps they're just used to having a "hobbit in the holler..." (or more likely, they just think I'm a harmless eccentric, which is true too, except for the harmless part! *snerk*)

Cheers, and see y'all on the road!
Lyta
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