Day 18, Part B - Art Garfunkel's walk across America

     Part of my inspiration for the structure of the ride I will finish tomorrow (in'shal'lah) comes from Art Garfunkel's (oh, come on, you know who he was - sweet tenor, sang with Paul Simon before they went their separate ways) walk across America.  Although he began doing it, in stages, in 1984, I did not become aware of it until I picked up a copy of the October 15, 1990 edition of Sports Illustrated, which covered a stretch of his walk in Kansas.  In about three stages a year, taking about 12 years, he did the whole thing, and like me in 2011, he had a driver.  Unlike me, however, because I had seen the whole thing, he would, at day's walk's end, if his chosen lodging lay ahead, close his eyes until he arrived at the overnight point and as he returned to his previous day's end point, so that he would never see the same terrain more than once.