Day 2 · Completed
Lynnwood
Highway 99, Lynnwood, Washington
Four miles borrowed from tomorrow, and a tent beside a taco truck
This day on the route
- Date
- The day
- Walking
- Walked
- 8.8 miles
Day 2, September 8: 8.8 miles walked, up Highway 99 to La Terraza in Lynnwood, including four miles walked ahead and back without her pack.
Route overview, not turn-by-turn directions.
On September 8 Jeana walked 8.8 miles up Highway 99 into Lynnwood. La Terraza, a taco truck with a pavilion around it, let her put her tent up inside for the night.
She had slept very little the night before, so she let her body set the pace. Along Highway 99 she found a patch of grass under a great big tree, leaned her pack against the trunk and slept for a while.
She had been looking all day for somewhere to sleep when she came across La Terraza, a taco truck in Lynnwood with a pavilion around it. They let her put her tent up inside, tucked away and safe enough that she could leave the big pack behind.
So she walked two more miles up the highway and two back without it, banking four miles of the next day’s route. The next morning she got a lift four miles up Highway 99 and started walking from there.
From the road
Four miles borrowed from tomorrow
She had slept very little the night before, so she let her body set the pace and rested as much as it needed. Along Highway 99 she found a beautiful patch of grass under a great big tree, leaned the pack against the trunk, and within minutes was asleep — for an hour, between two and three — and afterwards she felt able to walk again.
She had been looking all day for somewhere to sleep, and then she just happened on it: La Terraza, a taco truck in Lynnwood with a pavilion around it, let her put the tent up inside — tucked away, and safe enough that she could leave the big pack behind and walk two miles up the route and two miles back again without carrying it. That took four miles off the next day, which is the kind of arithmetic that matters six weeks out.
She has asked a great many strangers for a great many things this week, and she has settled into a way of doing it.
Whatever answer you give is okay, it’s the right answer for you. And I receive it without disappointment or judgment.
- Distance walked
- 8.8 miles
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Sources
Local history and background reading for this stop.
- Jeana’s updates from the road — the Marrow Walk journal — checked Oct 22, 2026
