Illinois to Chicago to I & M Canal Trail

Hello Friends,

Here are just a few photos of our Walk in Love. We have been able to share with a lot of people on our journey.  We have been truly blessed on this walk with love and kindness. We have walked through some dangerous areas around Chicago Metro and through swarms of blood hungry mosquitoes.  We hope you enjoy our post. We love you all and God Bless.

KatyDid in Lake Michigan

GentleFir and KatyDid at Navy Pier

I&M Canal Trail

Home Sweet Home Again

61 miles

Beautiful walking

Largest Mosquito ever seen

Mud Bogging carts

Relaxing Trail

Leaving Indiana

 

 

Hello Friends, Family and Fellow Hikers...........

We are about to enter a new state, Illinois. It seems like it was

only yesterday sometimes that we were in Delaware and then other times it seems

like that was a long time ago. We have been so blessed  meeting all of the people

across America. We have met people from all over the world and been able to share with

them as well, as they with us. Katy Did said it is like being in another country sometimes.

The vast differences in our country is amazing. The soil, land, plants, trees and foods, as well as accents in people vary so much. It is like leaving the country in a way. We  are doing this hike as

 a mission trip and we have experienced things that you would here about on a mission trip, too.

We have escaped poisonous snake bites, Tick born illness, mosquito invasions, sun sensitivity,

thunder storms, ankle deep mud, mountains and busy hi-ways and much more. We have been treated

to the circus, mission homes, hotel stays, camp ground stays, pizzas, breakfast, lunches and more...

What a blessing it has been. We have walked through more corn than we have ever seen up this

close, miles and miles of corn in every direction. It is a wonder we still have hungry people in this world. We have enjoyed the flat land  and the bike trails we have been off and on through Indiana. We have made new friends for life and some became like our family. We will miss Indiana and all of you that have touched us in one way or another. We are headed to Chicago and then turning towards Denver, Co. and west we go. If you would like to walk or bike with us a while we invite you to come join in Our Walk In Love across America. We just had our first to cycle with us 10 miles of our

journey, that was a blessing to us. Thank you for your support back home and all of your prayers. We would like to say a special Thank you for all of your prayers for KatyDid and her Lyme's disease, we needed them very much. Please continue them.

 

God Bless and Happy Hiking and We Love You ALL



 

First Flat tire

Escaping the sun and lunch break

KatyDid enjoying the tracks

MILES of this BEAUTY

Setting up Camp

Wonderful Polish Food...ALL Homemade meats and pastries

Rail Trail

Golden Wheat

Pretty Rail Trail Bridge

KatyDid blowing Cottonwood tree seeds like snow

Rail Trail

Lyme's Disease ....OH NO!

Hello Friends, Family and Fellow Hikers,

    We have walked over 1100 miles already. We are excited about that as a family. We have seen a lot along this journey and have met a lot of people too. We have stayed with strangers who are now like family and have camped and stayed in churches and hotels. It all has been a blessing to each of us.
      We are asking all of our readers and followers to please pray for our daughter, backpacking KatyDid. Our daughter was bitten by a deer tick in Ohio on June 30th,2014. We noticed right away that the bite started to change and get infected. We documented the site and type of tick and kept a close watch on it. The bite became red and itchy and looked like cellulitus. Then she began to run a fever and started having a stiff neck and headache and joints started popping. We were not near any hospitals until today. We searched the internet and our tick guide for tick born illnesses and suspected Lyme's disease but were not positive. We got a ride to the Marion general hospital in Marion,In. There they took 40 cc plus 4 normal tubes of blood from her and started antibiotic treatment immediately. They confirmed she has Lyme's disease. We will continue our walk in love in the morning. We will have to walk slower until she feels better. We pray the antibiotics work, she may have to have more later. Please continue to pray for her.
         This cost us a lot of extra money for her medicines,cab rides and extra hotel stay. If you can help us with this unexpected cost please email, call, or message us please. Thank you and God Bless.

Moving Along in Indiana

Since walking into Indiana we have been moving right along. We have walked 70 miles over the last 3 days. The combination of flat land, rail trails not many people to talk too, and not much to see, we are making up a lot of miles.