The Hiking DUmmie (Missouri to Washington) begins to complain one day into trip

[BattleHymn]

PART I, from yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9771052

Lady Freedom Returns (40 posts)             Tue Aug-30-11 10:11 PM
Original message
So I have started a Journal here at DU about this trip. And thia is the first entry!   
   

 
As many that have read some of my posts already know, I have lost my Home due to the May 22, 2011 Tornado that hit Joplin, MO. I can not get any help due to (according to FEMA and other agencies) being a renter that was just moving in. Due to this I also could not get my rent money back that my husband and I paid up for an extra month.
We also have no jobs due to the tornado and for some reason the majority of the clean up jobs are going to outsiders.

So we have sold what we had in storage(we were not all the way moved in yet). We placed packs on our backs and we are taking off. We hope to get up to the Northwest by the end of September. So Stay Tuned!

That is rather ambitious, don't you think?

Lars39   (1000+ posts)           Tue Aug-30-11 10:20 PM
Response to Original message
1. Good luck and best wishes, Lady Freedom Returns!
   
Did you see this article? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1847514

DUmmie Lars39 suggests The Hiking DUmmie plot a course to North Dakota instead.

Tuesday Afternoon   (1000+ posts)             Wed Aug-31-11 03:09 AM
Response to Original message
4. wow. am adding to my journals list - to make it easy to keep up with you guys   
   
stay safe and best of luck  

Yes, I'm adding this one to my journals list, too.  

GreenPartyVoter   (1000+ posts)             Wed Aug-31-11 10:35 AM
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5. *hugs* I am so sorry for the way things have gone. I hope that this new journey
   
turns out to be the best of adventures, and that something truly wonderful awaits your arrival in the northwest!   Stay safe!

If she goes through Colorado, I expect something brownish to black, ugly, rather irritable, weighing in at around 500 pounds, and with big white teeth, on skis:



Oh, and bears, too.    

RedCloud   (1000+ posts)           Wed Aug-31-11 02:36 PM
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7. Now I hate Cantor even more!
   

It's Cantor's fault The Hiking DUmmie is out of a job!  May her blood be on his head!  


Part II, the complaining begins:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9771033

Lady Freedom Returns (40 posts)             Tue Aug-30-11 09:53 PM
Original message
Another Day, another few miles.   
   

 
this is a long track. Hope I get an answer to some of my resumes I have sent out ahead of me. Hope to have some pics soon! Will place on line for everybody to see!

The Hiking DUmmie either cannot spell, or managed to get onto a circle or go-kart track, and has been making endless laps all the day long.  

How is it this DUmmie manages to have a cell phone with a data package, but only claims to have $200 to their name?  Who is paying for the plan?

rurallib   (1000+ posts)             Wed Aug-31-11 04:05 PM
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1. where abouts are you?
   

In some other thread somewhere, The Hiking DUmmie intended to finish the day somewhere west of Pittsburgh, KS.  No answer from The Hiking DUmmie just yet on their actual whereabouts.

[BattleHymn]

No word from The Hiking DUmmie on revising their one month estimate on the trip, even though they might be thinking of doing so, after today's long "track".

[franksolich]

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

The primitive expected to walk from Joplin, Missouri, to Pittsburg, Kansas on the first day?

No way; that's practically supersonic speed for human legs and feet.  No way.

[JohnnyReb]

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

The primitive expected to walk from Joplin, Missouri, to Pittsburg, Kansas on the first day?

No way; that's practically supersonic speed for human legs and feet.  No way.

I think one of them must be planning to do tricks for truck drivers....yes, some truck drivers are that desperate.

[BattleHymn]

The days are a little jumbled on when/where they were/are at what time.  This may be their second or third day into the trip. 

Here is what I found:

Lady Freedom Returns (40 posts)             Sun Aug-28-11 09:41 PM
Response to Reply #5
6. right now just to walk over the Missouri- Kansas line.   
   
we should be on the west side of Pittsburgh KS by tomorrow night.

Since Joplin is SE of Pittsburgh, that is a big area they could have crossed over.

The DUmmie is using a laptop (and wi-fi) to provide updates to the DUmp, so no phone with data package, like I assumed. 

[Mike220]

25 miles in one day. Assuming they go in a straight line from Joplin to the SE corner of Washington, they won't get there before the beginning of November at the earliest. And there's no way they're going in a straight line. Add in delays for injuries and zero days to rest and refit, and they'll make it around December. And that's just to that corner. Add another month or so to make it to Seattle (assuming they never hitch) and I'd say we can start writing obituaries now for these DUmmies.

[franksolich]

25 miles in one day. Assuming they go in a straight line from Joplin to the SE corner of Washington, they won't get there before the beginning of November at the earliest. And there's no way they're going in a straight line. Add in delays for injuries and zero days to rest and refit, and they'll make it around December. And that's just to that corner. Add another month or so to make it to Seattle (assuming they never hitch) and I'd say we can start writing obituaries now for these DUmmies.

I still don't understand why the primitives aren't going in a straighter line from Joplin to Seattle, which would of course put them hiking through the Sandhills of Nebraska.

This Missouri-Kansas-Colorado trek is surely going to cost them some days, some miles, some energy, they don't have to expend.

[BattleHymn]

I still don't understand why the primitives aren't going in a straighter line from Joplin to Seattle, which would of course put them hiking through the Sandhills of Nebraska.

This Missouri-Kansas-Colorado trek is surely going to cost them some days, some miles, some energy, they don't have to expend.

Would you let them sleep in the house if they stopped by, or would they have to pitch their tent on the William Rivers Pitt?

[franksolich]

Would you let them sleep in the house if they stopped by, or would they have to pitch their tent on the William Rivers Pitt?

Whatever they'd want; I'm a nice guy, one of the nicest guys one can ever hope to meet.

And a most-excellent host, as shown in the final chapter of "Mrs. Alfred Packer does Labor Day," when hippyhubby Wild Bill meets franksolich face-to-face.  It's coming out later this evening, after which the Packer Chronicles are closed, unless hippywife shows up on Skins's island again to provide more literary inspiration.

[ScubaGuy]

25 miles in one day. Assuming they go in a straight line from Joplin to the SE corner of Washington, they won't get there before the beginning of November at the earliest. And there's no way they're going in a straight line. Add in delays for injuries and zero days to rest and refit, and they'll make it around December. And that's just to that corner. Add another month or so to make it to Seattle (assuming they never hitch) and I'd say we can start writing obituaries now for these DUmmies.

I wonder if the DUmmie used the walking option on Google maps to plan their trip?

Google show that walking from Joplin to Seattle can be done in just 27 days!  Unfortunately assuming that a typical walking pace is 3 MPH so 1,982 miles @ 3 MPH comes to 660 hours.  24 Hrs/Day, that comes to 27 days. 

On yea there's that little sleep, eat, rest thing and good luck trying to keep 3 MPH up those mountain ranges.  I suspect their bodies should be found sometime after the spring thaw.

[Mike220]

I wonder if the DUmmie used the walking option on Google maps to plan their trip?

Google show that walking from Joplin to Seattle can be done in just 27 days!  Unfortunately assuming that a typical walking pace is 3 MPH so 1,982 miles @ 3 MPH comes to 660 hours.  24 Hrs/Day, that comes to 27 days. 

On yea there's that little sleep, eat, rest thing and good luck trying to keep 3 MPH up those mountain ranges.  I suspect their bodies should be found sometime after the spring thaw.

It'll be The Donner Party II...

[Duke Nukum]

Why didn't they just apply for some money from Obama's stash? I wonder if they got some tea when Rush was there this past July 4?

[franksolich]

It's late in the year and all that, but does anyone suppose this primitive could end up in the running for one of the top DUmmies of 2011?

That is, if she doesn't end up a coyote-dined-upon carcass in the wilds of Colorado or Wyoming.

[Doc Savage]

They must have been having a good time today.  it was about 105 there.  Tomorrow, 105 with winds.  In Kansas winds mean 50mph gusts.  The weather prognosticators tell you to put rock in your pockets cause it is going to be windy.  Maybe I will have to take a trip out 400 and see if I can see the primitives.  load my car with bush or Perry stickers, pull up in front of them and ask if they need anything. 

[ScubaGuy]

It's late in the year and all that, but does anyone suppose this primitive could end up in the running for one of the top DUmmies of 2011?

That is, if she doesn't end up a coyote-dined-upon carcass in the wilds of Colorado or Wyoming.

Do we have a DUmmie Darwin award?

[franksolich]

Do we have a DUmmie Darwin award?

There's a problem with that, though, sir.

Other than the moles and trolls, the bona fide primitives are all self-destructive.

They're not self-destructing as quickly as one hopes they would, but still, they're self-destructive.

So ultimately, in the end, they'd all be winners of a Darwin Award.

[GOBUCKS]

It's late in the year and all that, but does anyone suppose this primitive could end up in the running for one of the top DUmmies of 2011?

That is, if she doesn't end up a coyote-dined-upon carcass in the wilds of Colorado or Wyoming.

I think being devoured by coyotes, especially if it happens while she's logged into the DUmp, should be worth at least a nomination.
Or maybe there could be a special Khephra Award, with eligibility contingent on being logged into the DUmp at the moment of death.

[Bodadh]

I am having a hard time believing that they were denied any help or shelter after having their home destroyed. Something doesn't add up. And why the hell didn't they buy bus tickets? I sense some really bad problem solving skills here.

[Texacon]

Wasn't there another DUmmie who was taking on an epic trip?  Ichingcarpenter comes to mind for some reason .... have they ever been heard from again?

KC

[franksolich]

I am having a hard time believing that they were denied any help or shelter after having their home destroyed. Something doesn't add up. And why the hell didn't they buy bus tickets? I sense some really bad problem solving skills here.

These are primitives, after all.

Remember the number one rule: DUmmies lie; all the time, DUmmies lie.

[dutch508]

Wasn't there another DUmmie who was taking on an epic trip?  Ichingcarpenter comes to mind for some reason .... have they ever been heard from again?

KC

Eaten. By Llamas. In Oklahoma.


That is all.

 

[BattleHymn]

I am having a hard time believing that they were denied any help or shelter after having their home destroyed. Something doesn't add up. And why the hell didn't they buy bus tickets? I sense some really bad problem solving skills here.

I'd say you are right on target.  Something simply does not add up.  If anything, the amount of help available down there was overwhelming.  Everyone I knew from down there, or knew of through friends and acquaintances, got help.   

I found the repeated mentioning by The Hiking DUmmie that there was a lack of funds (only $200, if by some miracle you managed to miss it being mentioned) is very telling of something, although I'm not sure of what.   

[GOBUCKS]

Maybe she's trying to encourage poor, stupid Beth to start a big DUmp fundraiser. It worked once.

All they need to do is time it to start during one of those brief periods when the enigmatic,
but moronic, Elad is left alone in charge of the big DUmp control panel.

[RWKindaGuy]

I still don't understand why the primitives aren't going in a straighter line from Joplin to Seattle, which would of course put them hiking through the Sandhills of Nebraska.

This Missouri-Kansas-Colorado trek TRACK is surely going to cost them some days, some miles, some energy, they don't have to expend.

Consistency is important to the lurking DUmmies.  Please don't confuse them with correct spelling and usage.  As you know, they are burning up many precious brain cells in their attempt to reach even a basic reading level.  New words (and clowns) scare them.

[ChuckJ]

If it was me I would have probably waited until 0 send out the free unicorns. They could have ridden the unicorns and made much better time.