HanFord

In this area of Washington, we were hosted by Christ the King Church (Catholic), and Shalom Church of Christ (Protestant). Our local organizer is Jim Stoffels (Retired from Hanford Physics). We are completely against all wars and against Nuclear weapons. We prayed at the 300 Area which is decommissioned and very contaminated. Another wonderful experience […]

San Francisco and Portland

We are still on a magical mystery peace walk for a Nuclear Free Future! In Berkeley, Livermore, San Francisco and now in Portland we have walkers from the Longest Walk II. It is very good to be with peace makers of such lengthy history…. We also stopped to pray with Veterans For Peace will in […]

LivermoreNuclearWeaponsLab

On Tuesday we arrived at Livermore Lab. We need the Lab to shut down its nuclear operations and convert to clean-up ONLY operations.

In Berkeley and Oakland

At Berkeley Unitarian Universal fellowship on Saturday, Takashi Tanemori spoke of his Hibakusha experience: he was eight when Hiroshima was obliterated. He vowed revenge at his father’s grave site at 18 years of age, then, after forty long years of hate for the destroyers of his town of Hiroshima and six members of his family, […]

The 12th Day in NM

On the final day of the New Mexico portion, the seven peace walkers prayed at the White Sands Missile Range base gate. Tomorrow the Peace Walkers will drive to California, ready for the next leg of the Walk to begin on Saturday. Today was a successful prayer time for the 7 who made it all […]

Days 10-11

On the 10th day we reached San Antonio. Employees with Socorro County and other local workers were EXTREMELY helpful for our Peace Walkers in securing resources such as food and housing. At the County Park in San Antonio, other local media people came out to visit. We camped there next to the future fire station. […]

Day 9

In the past 9 days, some of us got mosquito bites, poison oak or sumac, horrendous sunburns, sore, achey muscles, and of course, BLISTERS. Despite the physical hardships, the spiritual rewards are great, and the physical HOSPITALITY of local people is beautifully divine, often coming forth in food and housing for the pilgrims… We leave […]

Days 7-8

Yesterday Rhonda fed us a great meal. 6 of us had walked from the Isleta Pueblo to Adelino. Today we’ll skip forward 20 extra miles via car because we couldn’t get a campsite in Bernardo for free and will stay in Polvadera instead.

Day 6

Today six of the Peace Walkers covered about 18 miles before bedding down for the night in Albuquerque’s South Valley. Hiro is terribly sunburnt but able to offer wonderful massages to his fellow Walkers. Before leaving the site of a future garden, two of the monks (Senji & Gilberto) blessed the land with Catholic Worker […]

Yesterday we made it to Bernalillo

On Wednesday, the Walk included 5 walkers, no kittens and one support driver. Today it’s the same group. Tomorrow they stop in Albuquerque at 9:00 am at Vecinos del Bosque Park to meet other folks who might walk for a day with the group.