walk dates now locked in!

I went to my once-in-several-months doctor's appointment today, and my next appointment will be on October 15, which happens to be my brother Sean's birthday. On October 15, then, I'll visit the doc, go back to my place, grab my stuff, and train down to Busan. The following morning, preferably early, I'll wake up, grab a cab from Busan Station to the Nakdong River Barrage (낙동강하굿둑 or 하구둑), then walk the Nakdong River trail backwards (this is gonna feel weird) to Yangsan City and the Bliss Hotel. 

I've already updated my itinerary, so if you click the itinerary link on the right-hand sidebar, you'll see the now-settled schedule. The only thing that still needs to be filled out is the daily step count, and I'll be filling those numbers in every day as I walk so I can finally arrive at a walk total. As per usual, I will not be relying on MapMyWalk to measure distances because the app is so battery-intensive. It's fine for shorter walks of up to three hours, but for eight- and nine-hour walks, it's no good. I'm battery-obsessive enough as it is.

It occurs to me that I'll be finishing the walk on November 4—just before Election Day in the States. Yikes. I didn't plan it that way, I swear.

So, to reiterate: the walk will be from October 15 to November 4 this year—twenty days, with many of those being rest days. This will be a comfortable, fairly lazy walk (with some long-ass segments thrown in) that will finish at the Andong Dam, a very exciting, beautiful, and auspicious place to end. I'm pumped: at a tiny bit more than 400 kilometers, this is going to be a much shorter walk than usual, but it'll be along one of my favorite parts of the Four Rivers trail: the Nakdong River. I'm really looking forward to this.