So far, my circuitous route has wound across Hampton Roads and up part of Virginia’s Necks. The above map will change over time, the yellow line creeping deeper into Virginia as I trek farther away from my hometown.

One walk will pick up where another walk finished, each leg acting like a link in a chain. However, I will not necessarily walk each leg in sequence and some of the chain's links may be unconnected for a while. Although I have a route across the state mapped out in my mind and can walk from A to B to C, I don't want to pass up opportunities that arise at a distant location just because it is out of sequence. For example, I walked across Chincoteague in July 2009 so I could witness the running of the ponies. But that was 6 months before I walked the 75 miles leading up the Eastern Shore.

So where have I been so far?

If you wish to read about my misadventures in your part of the state, here's a list of the dates and locations where I've walked. Click on the months to read the blogs with their write-ups.

June 2009
June 14: Poquoson to Hampton
June 16: Hampton to Newport News
June 17: Newport News (Deep Creek to Port Warwick to Denbigh)
June 19: Newport News to Williamsburg
June 22: Williamsburg to Yorktown
June 27: Gloucester Point to Ordinary

July 2009
July 1: Ordinary to Gloucester Courthouse
July 3: Gloucester Courthouse to Mathews County
July 11: Mathews County to Hardyville
July 18: Williamsburg halfway to Jamestown
July 26: Virginia Beach: Laskin Road
July 29: Chincoteague
July 31: Virginia Beach to Norfolk

August 2009
August 1: Fort Story to Virginia Beach
August 7: Norfolk: Military Circle to Waterside
August 8: Olde Towne Portsmouth
August 9: Portsmouth to Chesapeake
August 14: Chesapeake to Suffolk
August 16: Williamsburg to Lightfoot
August 17: Suffolk: Mr. Peanut Statue to New Dominion Studios
August 20: Suffolk to Isle of Wight
August 21: Suffolk/Isle of Wight border to Smithfield
August 29: Virginia Beach (First Landing State Park Trail) & Newport News (Noland Trail)

September 2009
September 4: Fort Monroe
September 6: Virginia Beach (Rock-n-Roll Half Marathon)
September 11: Hartfield to Topping
September 12: University of Virginia
September 13: White Stone to Irvington
September 18: Smithfield through Rushmere & Poolesville to Bacon's Castle
September 19: Gloucester
September 20: Lightfoot to Norge
September 25: Elon to Madison Heights
September 25: Madison Heights to Lynchburg
September 26: Exploring Lynchburg
September 28: Norge to Toano

October 2009
October 2: Theodore Roosevelt Island, Old Town Alexandria, & Arlington National Cemetery
October 3: Alexandria to Mount Vernon
October 3: Arlington to Washington D.C.
October 4: Alexandria to Theodore Roosevelt Island
October 7: Toano to Barhamsville
October 9: A Walk Across Richmond
October 11: Sandston through Montrose to Richmond
October 12: Barhamsville to New Kent
October 20: New Kent to Quinton
October 24: Bottoms Bridge to Sandston
October 25: Ashland to Doswell
October 28: Davis Crossroads & Clintwood
October 31: Doswell to Carmel Church

November 2009
November 1: Carmel Church thru Golansville to Ladysmith
November 4: Surry to Scotland
November 6: Thornburg thru Massaponax to Fredericksburg
November 7: Ladysmith to Thornburg
November 10: Yellow Tavern thru Glen Allen to Ashland
November 14: Arlington to Falls Church
November 20: Fredericksburg & Stafford
November 21: Fredericksburg thru Falmouth to Stafford
November 21: Old Town Fredericksburg
November 22: Downtown Norfolk (Mermaid Walk)
November 25: Irvington to Kilmarnock
November 27: Stafford thru Aquia to Dumfries
November 28: Route 29 to Charlottesville

December 2009
December 3: Ruckersville to Charlottesville
December 7: Hampton to Fort Monroe
December 9: Richmond to Yellow Tavern
December 12: Stanardsville to Ruckersville
December 18: Scottsville (The Pig Walk)
December 24: Bacon's Castle to Surry
December 26: Wicomico Church to Reedville

January 2010
January 1: Modest Town to Bloxom
January 2: Jamestown to Williamsburg
January 3: Onancock thru Parksley & Greenbush & Hopeton to Bloxom
January 5: Kiptopeke to Capeville
January 11: Nelsonia to Temperanceville
January 13: Eastville to Cheriton
January 14: Cheriton to Capeville
January 15: Eastville thru Birdsnest to Weirwood
January 17: Weirwood thru Nassawadox to Exmore
January 23: Temperanceville thru New Church & Oak Hall to Maryland border
January 24: Onancock thru Onley, Melfa, & Keller to Painter
January 28: Scottsville to Esmont

February 2010 (aka, "Snowmageddon")
February 20: Smithfield to Isle of Wight
February 26: Isle of Wight to Windsor
February 27: Windsor to Walters

March 2010
March 4: Smithfield's Windsor Castle Park
March 7: Franklin to North Carolina Border
March 9: Timberlake to Forest
March 10: Lynchburg to Timberlake
March 16: Walters to Franklin
March 17: North Garden
March 18: Shenandoah National Park to Stanardsville
March 24: Blue Ridge to Roanoke
March 25: Roanoke thru Salem to Glenvar
March 26: Christiansburg to Blacksburg
March 27: Abingdon to Bristol
March 28: Abingdon
March 31: Kilmarnock to Wicomico Church & Brook Vale

April 2010
April 3: Shenandoah National Park & Greene County Park
April 8: Shenandoah National Park
April 9: Shenandoah National Park
April 16: Virginia Tech
April 17: Glenvar thru Elliston to Shawsville & Dixie Caverns
April 21: Windsor to Zuni
April 24: Bedford to Thaxton
April 25: Thaxton thru Villamont & Montvale to Blue Ridge
April 30: Dumfries thru Woodbridge to Occoquan

May 2010
May 1: Mount Vernon to Woodbridge
May 8: Zuni to Ivor & White Tail Resort
May 15: Freedom Park & Williamsburg Botanical Gardens
May 21: Shenandoah National Park to Sperryville

June 2010
June 3: Downtown Warrenton & Sperryville to Washington, VA
June 4: Washington, VA to Amissville
June 5: Reedville to Fair Port & Exploring Tangier Island
June 11: Amissville to South Wales
June 12: South Wales to Warrenton & Woodbridge to Potomac Mills
June 15: Newport News: Green Acres to Denbigh
June 17: Poquoson: Emmaus to Messick Point
June 18: Manassas Battlefield
June 19: Warrenton thru New Baltimore to Gainesville
June 24: Exploring possible Indian sites
June 25: Gainesville thru Manassas & Centreville to Fairfax
June 26: Fairfax to Falls Church

July 2010
July 2: Colleen to Lovingston
July 3: Lovingston to Faber
July 4: Colonial Downs
July 11: New Kent to Colonial Downs
July 17: Esmont to Schuyler & Poor Boys' Mud Bog
July 22: Schuyler to Faber
July 23: North Garden thru South Garden to Schuyler