2000 miles...

We make our way through Nebraska and into Iowa.  Iowa is almost through and we're about to cross the Mississippi early tomorrow morning into Illinois.  Earlier today, we all hung out on an empty Iowa road with lights, a cake, and a festive spirit as Marshall clocked off mile 2,000.  We cheered and clapped - just the crews, all of us having spent the last 35 days together watching this exact thing - Charlie and Marshall running, clicking off mile after mile.  Yet this last 300 yards seemed special.  He celebrated his 2,000th mile with a few puffs on a crewmember's cigar, a few bites of cake and a teary-eyed smile and then was on his way, toward mile 2001.  

At the beginning of this adventure Charlie told all of us, "this will change you, and you may not know how until six months after."  However, documenting this event gives us the privilege of both being apart from it and in it.  It's been a great 4 and a half weeks, and there is a bit of sadness as we move towards the East coast...