On Monday morning, she got up and walked seven miles in Edwardsville, starting from Buchanan and Vandalia streets and walking east through town. We've gotten to the point where we eat with our feet up all the time. They had walked through a gentle rain, nothing like the downpour Saturday at the parking lot of the Granite City Wal Mart. The wind picked up and blew the shopping carts from one end of the lot to the other. The women pulled into St. Louis several days ago and walked over the Mississippi River into Illinois by way of the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge.
New shoes help keep their feet fresh, and they change socks and shoes three times a day.
Brownfield has seven pairs of New Balance shoes, which she bought herself. By the time Gardner had walked through California, Arizona, and part of New Mexico, Brownfield, who lives in Cloudcroft, N.M., had already read about Gardner in the Albuquerque Journal. She liked the idea and phoned and e-mailed Gardner to see if she could join her for the rest of the trip. Gardner consented and the two have been a team since Oklahoma City. The idea for the trip came to Gardner two years ago when she learned that her grandson, Zachary, was born with spina bifida.