Hello from the Cumberland Gap Monday 11 Oct 2004 Greetings from US58 in Southwest Virginia. I lost my medicine and have left home for another walking adventure! This time, it is my intention to walk from Cumberland Gap to Virginia Beach along the US58 corridor. I started yesterday afternoon and it is my hope to finish in about a month. Of course, there are many potential obstacles (rain, steep hills, cold, physical ailments and 63-year-old flesh and bone yelling, "Enough!”). So while I am optimistic, I am also realistic and if conditions dictate stopping before I reach the beach, so be it. Yesterday, Donna walked with me from the Kentucky side up to the saddle of the Cumberland Gap. She returned to the car and drove around to the Virginia side to pick me up where the trail meets US 58. The road used to go through the gap, but now there is a tunnel. The old road has been destroyed and replaced with a "restored" Wilderness Road trail which supposedly gives a taste of what the Kentucky bound settlers experienced after Daniel Boone and others established it. Picking up where I left off yesterday afternoon, I continued on eastward through the little towns of Ewing and Rose Hill. The US58 route through here is alternatively called the Boone Heritage Trail or Wilderness Road trail. Tomorrow, I plan to walk on to Pennington Gap on Alternate US58.