A few firsts today

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A few firsts today. For the first time ever I saw red peppers growing in a field. Naa har jeg vaert der pepper’n gror! Norwegian expression. A week ago, I was offered lots of chestnuts while walking. Today I saw farmers digging their peanut harvest out of the ground. I have never eaten freshly dug out of the ground peanuts, and they were crunchy and tasty! Another first today was watching farmers carefully harvesting cotton.

25 kilometers today, 16 kilometers yesterday

About Stephen Robert Loken

Stephen Robert Loken walked the entire Ming Dynasty Great Wall of China, covering about 6,000 km in 601 days from Jiayuguan in Gansu to the Hushan Great Wall at Dandong, Liaoning, on the North Korean border. He left Jiayuguan in April 2009 and finished in December 2010, walking alone apart from seven weeks with his brother Jon. Born in England to an English mother and a Norwegian father, he lives in Norway. He has also kayaked the entire length of Norway, from Lindesnes to Nordkapp, and walked the length of Great Britain, from Land's End to John o' Groats. These posts are his daily notes written along the Wall.