Backpacking Believers

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

    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...

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...

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.