Walk Across America–Week 2 & 3

December 19-25 – Week 2
I was sick and needed to rest my body so I didn’t exercise much… but by the end of the week I had gone 90 miles (total of 446miles) and made it to Sugar Grove, VA

The grove of sugar maple trees along the banks of Cressy Creek is where Sugar Grove derives its name. Sugar Grove is called "The Head Springs Of The South Fork Of The Holston River"...and is one of the first places settled on the Holston River.

December 26- 30 – Week 3
still not feeling 100%, but I am exercising my normal routines again :)  So by the 30th I had gone another 240 miles (total of 686) and got into Kentucky!  Booneville, KY

The town was named for American frontiersman, Daniel Boone. The town, consisting at the time of little more than a temporary log courthouse, became the county seat when Owsley County was formed on May 20, 1844. During the Civil War, Booneville was a crossroads for various Union and Confederate regiments, and was threatened by Confederate guerrillas, but avoided the destruction that befell some other county seats of Kentucky during the war.