tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post2440184068386491274..comments2023-12-08T19:02:30.668-06:00Comments on Walk2Write in Florida: A Book Review: Taking Evans' 'The Walk' Across Florida and to Ichetucknee Springwalk2writehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13501812375142037251noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-15626040731421701922010-11-03T14:58:36.638-05:002010-11-03T14:58:36.638-05:00guess what? we ended throwing the water out becau...guess what? we ended throwing the water out because I didn't trust it. I always get my water at Whole Foods and I am paranoid about drinking certain types of water! <br /><br />I agree with what you said about bacteria, etc! I don't care how much they test it, plus it really didn't taste clean and pure. I can tell lol!Southern Bloomshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17188621001731419782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-48639014127119383012010-11-03T12:48:05.935-05:002010-11-03T12:48:05.935-05:00I really enjoyed reading this post and you had me ...I really enjoyed reading this post and you had me laughing at some of the things you said, especially bits and pieces of the book. I had to laugh at ISIL and I actually had to look up the word Irascible.<br /><br />I LOVE the swinging bridge and would love to take a visit there someday. I looked up the park on google map and it doesn't look like it would be too far out of the question to take a trip there. I love places like this. Ahhhh to smell the pines is always my cup of Pine Needle Tea too! lol<br /><br />Talk to you soon!Southern Bloomshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17188621001731419782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-72701952533989657852010-11-01T06:48:08.189-05:002010-11-01T06:48:08.189-05:00Hi, Lola! Evans' book is nothing if not a prom...Hi, Lola! Evans' book is nothing if not a promise. It's the first installment in a series, so there's still time for the protag to redeem himself or rather be redeemed by Evans. It sounds like a new literary star may be on your family's horizon. Keep encouraging her.walk2writehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13501812375142037251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-14327279847932200202010-10-31T20:45:03.512-05:002010-10-31T20:45:03.512-05:00Great post. The book sounds interesting. Should lo...Great post. The book sounds interesting. Should look into reading it sometime. Just started reading the proof book of son's new gf. Sounds promising.Lolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05167298790872032154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-40758475749261039252010-10-30T08:17:25.996-05:002010-10-30T08:17:25.996-05:00Thanks, Tina. You, antisocial? I can't believe...Thanks, Tina. You, antisocial? I can't believe it. It's probably just the comfort of garden solitude wanting to spill over in the rest of life. <br /><br />Sarah, I can't wait to read it. I know your take on nature will be right on the mark. Thanks for the encouraging words.<br /><br />Hello, Michelle! I'm glad you came by for a visit. Thanks for reminding me about the comment feature. I'll fix it on the other blog. I had forgotten that the embedded style is more of a pain than it's worth. <br /><br />MBT, you're welcome! It must seem like we're always on vacation, but that's not true. Most of the excursions we take are not that far away or are on the way to somewhere we need to go for business or family reasons. The best time of the year to take them (at least the kind portrayed in this post) is now until next May. No heat, not as many bugs, and fewer people. The water temperature stays about the same year-round.walk2writehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13501812375142037251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-61244005950832836302010-10-29T19:35:36.772-05:002010-10-29T19:35:36.772-05:00Thanks for the book review and the tour. It must b...Thanks for the book review and the tour. It must be awesome to get away and go on these expeditions I'm always reading on your blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-60414366220752798372010-10-28T22:33:19.910-05:002010-10-28T22:33:19.910-05:00I stopped by to say Hello and I so enjoyed this po...I stopped by to say Hello and I so enjoyed this post as everything here is on its way to winter...I also enjoyed your new blog, but I can't leave a comment when blogger uses the embedded option instead of the pop-up unless I go and use IE which I hate...anyway...I enjoyed my visit.... MichelleRambling Woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15080120317890707767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-28560014824285671692010-10-27T17:20:39.742-05:002010-10-27T17:20:39.742-05:00What a wonderful vacation! You take such atmospher...What a wonderful vacation! You take such atmospheric photos, and I love how you’ve tied reading to nature.<br /><br />My favorite quotation was yours: “And the river keeps going, flowing freely, past the point where we left it that day.”<br /><br />One day I plan to write a nature based novel - a love story for Planet Earth.Sarah Laurencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423008641739156182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-79446199037326803652010-10-27T16:51:12.151-05:002010-10-27T16:51:12.151-05:00You do have such a way with words. I'm with yo...You do have such a way with words. I'm with you on the float-I don't want any folks and I'm admitting I am rather antisocial. Like my own company better than most I guess. The float and the walk are the perfect foils for relaxing and getting away from it all. P.S. Smart of you to keep the peace;)tinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415302577518111227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-41156104881136884652010-10-27T13:54:58.917-05:002010-10-27T13:54:58.917-05:00Karen, thanks for stopping in. I hope that things ...Karen, thanks for stopping in. I hope that things are getting back to normal for you. <br /><br />TB, I'm glad you enjoyed the trip. The book really isn't trite. There were some things about it that bothered me. Maybe the protag is more complicated than I know, and the subsequent books in the series--this is supposed to be the first of several--will clear up some possible misconceptions. <br /><br /><br />Rose, thanks, and please don't let my opinions keep you away from the book. I'm probably just too quirky about things like walking the walk. Doesn't everybody have an ISIL or two?<br /><br />Thanks, Rosey. I thought Kool-Aid had vitamin C too. I can't believe I used to drink that stuff when I was a kid. Yech! <br /><br />You don't need a pond, TC, just some of that bluegrass music of yours softly playing and a window to look out onto your property that you've just had a chance to walk about. I'm not sure I'd want to live as simply and frugally as HDT did.<br /><br />Thanks, Beth. My daughter loves McKennitt. I usually learn about the younger artists from her, and I agree with you on "my what a voice." I'll have to see where else my meandering led you to. <br /><br />RGB, I'm happy that you enjoyed yourself. Actually the book is worth the read. It made me wonder why a popular author takes a certain path with his writing and where he's headed with it. He's not finished with it yet. There's supposed to be a series about the protag's journey. <br /><br />Tomz, your praise means a lot to me. I'm not sure if Evans stopped along the way to take a walk or a float. Maybe if he sees this post, he will consider it for the next time he makes the trip. Thirty-two years does sound like a long time to be in love with someone, but it never gets old. I wish for you the same kind of blessing.walk2writehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13501812375142037251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-73561212278833777452010-10-27T09:56:38.742-05:002010-10-27T09:56:38.742-05:00Beautifully written, sometimes spiritual, sometime...Beautifully written, sometimes spiritual, sometimes romantic and sometimes fictitious. You were travelling the same path which was taken by the protagonist of Evans, right..?The pictures were really wonderful and it created really an exotic feeling intermingled with the lines that you wrote..<br /><br />Also, the mention of your 32 yrs long family life was truly remarkable..Tomzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13809990191742945893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-69987621167825387252010-10-27T03:20:11.389-05:002010-10-27T03:20:11.389-05:00Enjoyed the walk with you, loved the photos too. S...Enjoyed the walk with you, loved the photos too. Sounds like the book was not worth the read ;pRGBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15279590663523317849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-71198492286507344052010-10-26T21:16:49.547-05:002010-10-26T21:16:49.547-05:00Wonderful read. I am listening to a new find (the ...Wonderful read. I am listening to a new find (the Canadian singer Loreena McKennitt, oh my what a voice) on this dark, windy panhandle Florida night. Got hung up on tracking down the "God-shaped hole" author, from St. Augustine to Pascal, and then (somehow), wound up engrossed in reading about the awful debacle at Virginia Quarterly Review several months ago when their managing editor committed suicide. So, I guess reading your thoughtful river meander started me on one of a different sort! Anyway, big enjoyment. Thanks. . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-51055842902485827852010-10-26T16:19:07.284-05:002010-10-26T16:19:07.284-05:00I think you and I are transcendalists at heart. An...I think you and I are transcendalists at heart. And if it were humanly possible for me to have a little shack somewhere along the banks of Walden Pond, I'd write my memoir there, and listen to what Nature wanted me to include.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-22859561623830041722010-10-26T16:01:52.240-05:002010-10-26T16:01:52.240-05:00Pine needle tea is supposedly chock full of vit c....Pine needle tea is supposedly chock full of vit c. But probably not as tasty as trail mix. <br />I enjoyed this read today. I am glad you were able to get out and enjoy nature as well, sans kool-aid.<br />RoseyChloe mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02265196480664185330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-32947986625859068762010-10-26T08:26:46.163-05:002010-10-26T08:26:46.163-05:00What an enjoyable read this morning, W2W! I felt ...What an enjoyable read this morning, W2W! I felt as if I was floating along with you on the river, my thoughts wandering to different places, just as yours did. I don't think I'll pick up this book now--someone who drives the distance rather than walking part of it doesn't seem very "real" to me. You would think, too, that Thoreau's words would be the natural source to quote for such a book. <br /><br />Hope your family gathering went well; I also have an ISIL:)Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384059342847120951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-5673940139134987802010-10-26T06:51:29.442-05:002010-10-26T06:51:29.442-05:00What a pleasant float down a meandering river of w...What a pleasant float down a meandering river of words. We have sinkholes and lots of springs here in limestone bluff country as well. We work hard to protect our groundwater against the intrusions of mechanized and corporate "progress." I do canoe them as well but never thought of bringing a stiletto with me to skewer a rather trite sounding book. :)troutbirderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14087811292280881959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999389688482604348.post-17948604861955471692010-10-26T05:52:28.536-05:002010-10-26T05:52:28.536-05:00You speak some might powerful words! Definitely a...You speak some might powerful words! Definitely a post I'll have to revisit to read again. ~karenKaHollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02528677007819875856noreply@blogger.com