April 26– Day 116

28,300.9 Miles

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REPORT FROM THE WALK:

From Hirosha Miyagi:

As the earthwalk passed through my small city of Muko, Japan they filed a report of a missing person. Name unknown. Goes by “Narrator”. My big problem is that they list his last known location as the Gobi Dessert. You must understand I have never had a report filed like this. His sister said he often goes off on semi-secret missions but usually returns in just a couple days. The person who last saw him said they were walking with this stranger from the area named Kumar Sunat. Kumar often faded away and a short while later would fade back in. As the narrator and Kumar were talking they both faded away, but only Kumar faded back in. I think the dessert did things to their minds.

From Kim Young:

We had some trouble last week with the Chinese authorities. Seems they would not give us a permit to walk on the Great Wall as their quote for individuals and small groups was full and we fell three short of qualifying for the large group permits of groups 200 and over. Actually it probably worked out for the best as the walking was much easier along the wall than actually on top of it. There were large sections that were in very poor repair.

We ended up walking the entire 4,136 miles of the wall, all the way to the ocean.

We got to see how it was constructed differently in different areas and learned it was originally several separate walls constructed by different groups and only hundreds of years later was it all connected together.

We got to walk all the way across North and South Korea. We were treated like royalty in both countries, but what a contrast. North Korea is really dirt poor and very rural. South Korea on the other hand was very urban and wealthy by comparison.

I never realized how close Japan is to South Korea. A few hops and skips across some islands and whaa la – Japan. We were impressed by how clean and neat and well kept most of the places were in Japan. There sure are a lot of people though. It was easy to get distracted by all the city stuff, but when we got to Mount Fuji, the natural world came back impressively. Here’s an interesting rendition of Mt. Fuji

The guides said that later today we’re getting on the EarthWalk Ocean Barge and heading for Australia. There was some talk about organizing a search party for the narrator, but we really didn’t have much of a clue of where to start looking. About half the group expect him to just show up sometime soon.

Oh. Early this morning we all got medals at a ceremony outside Tokyo. It seems we have set a new EarthWalk record, passing the old mark of 25,000 miles. We aren’t done yet!

The

Asiatic

Exponential

Challenge

- The contest started April 1 and the contest ends upon reaching the shores of Australia

- each pound lost earns a base point

- average miles per day of biking in Asia earn base points

- average miles per day of walking in Asia earn base points multiplied by 2.14285714285714

- average miles per day of jogging/running in Asia earn base points multiplied by 2.74285714285714

- average miles per day of swimming in Asia earn base points multiplied by 7.34693877551021

- base points earned will become the exponent of base 2 in determining free lunch points awarded

Here is an example of how the contest would work:

Joe Nibs loses one pound, runs 6 miles, walks 35 miles and bikes 20 miles in Asia.

It takes us 25 days to get to Australia. Here is what Joe earns in free lunch points:

Pound Lost – 1 base point

Running – 6 miles/25 days = .24 base points times the multiplier = 0.658285714285714 base points

Walking – 35 miles/25 days = 1.4 base points times the multiplier = 3 base points

Biking 20 miles/35 days = 0.571428571428571 base points

Add up all the base points and you get 5.22971428571428 base points

The base points are used as the exponent of base 2 which calculates to 37.52328 free lunch points (here it gets rounded to 38 points)

So here is truly your chance to “step on the gas” and be precisely rewarded.

FROM EARTHWALK COSMIC HEADQUARTERS IN OMAHAHA

Note: The data entry cats are still in Las Vegas. We haven’t heard from them. I guess that means they are having a good time. In the meanwhile we have had to hire an expensive sorcerer who has the talent of making skeletons put in a days work. Here’s part of our new “skeleton crew” playing around out back.

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