An illustrated itinerary
Explore all 41 stops of the walk, from Seattle to Olympia.
Start · Completed
Fred Hutch at UW Medical Center – Montlake, Seattle, Washington
The walk started at Fred Hutch at UW Medical Center–Montlake on September 7, 2026. Seattle’s transplant history gives the opening chapter its context, but the work began well…
Ridgecrest, Shoreline, on the first day’s walk north. Illustration.
Day 1 · Completed
Bethesda Lutheran Church, Mountlake Terrace, Washington
On September 7, the first day, Jeana walked 12.4 miles north from Fred Hutch through Shoreline and ended at Bethesda Lutheran Church in Mountlake Terrace, where she slept in her…
Day 2 · Completed
Highway 99, Lynnwood, Washington
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.
Day 3 · Completed
Downtown Everett, Washington
On September 9 Jeana walked 7.8 miles into Everett and spent the afternoon at Fire Station 1, the courthouse, the police department and City Hall, sharing how to join the registry.
Day 4 · Completed
St. Mary Catholic Church, Marysville, Washington
On September 10 Jeana walked 7.7 miles out of Everett, over the sloughs and into Marysville, where Father Peter of St. Mary Catholic Church found her a room for the night.
Day 5 · Completed
Washington
On September 11 Jeana walked 9 miles from Marysville into Arlington, the last of them on the Centennial Trail with only a day pack. River travel, the railway and the trail each…
Day 6 · Completed
Starbird Road, Mount Vernon, WA
On September 12, her longest day yet, Jeana walked 15 miles out of Arlington to Bertelsen Winery on Starbird Road. The family-owned winery opened in 2014 on a hillside in southern…
Day 7 · Completed
Washington
On September 13, in rain for the first time, Jeana walked 8.3 miles into Mount Vernon and slept in her tent on the lawn of St. Joseph Catholic Church. Its riverfront combines…
Day 8 · Completed
Downtown Mount Vernon, on the Skagit River
On September 14 Jeana made her way through Mount Vernon end to end, talking with people about joining the registry, and walked 7.8 miles in all. The day’s reading distinguishes…
Day 9 · Completed
Chuckanut Drive above Samish Bay, Skagit County, Washington
On September 15 Jeana walked 12 miles from north of Mount Vernon through Blanchard and up Chuckanut Drive, and pitched her tent at a pullout above Samish Bay.
Day 10 · Completed
Chuckanut Drive at California Street, Bellingham, Washington
On September 16 Jeana walked 8.6 miles over Chuckanut Mountain, past Washington’s first state park, and down to California Street in Bellingham. Water-line construction at the…
Day 11 · Completed
Bellingham, WA
On September 17 Jeana made this her Bone Marrow Awareness Day in Bellingham, from City Hall to the county, and walked 8.7 miles in all, north toward Ferndale. The city grew from…
Day 12 · Completed
Whatcom County, Washington
On September 18 Jeana walked 6.8 miles from north Bellingham into Ferndale, where the firefighters let her charge her phone and the police found her a bed for the night.
Day 13 · Completed
Whatcom County, Washington
On September 19 Jeana walked from Ferndale up Portal Way through Custer and on toward Blaine, 12.2 miles by the end of a long night. Custer’s school history reaches from a…
Day 14 · Completed
Washington
On September 20 Jeana walked the last 3.4 miles into Blaine and took a room at the Northwoods Motel, three tenths of a mile from the Peace Arch. A cold kept her there for two more…
Day 17 · Completed
Elgin, South Surrey, British Columbia
On September 23, after two days resting in Blaine with a cold, Jeana walked over the Peace Arch border into Canada and on to Elgin, in South Surrey: 10.2 miles in all.
Day 18 · Completed
King George Boulevard, Surrey, British Columbia (approximate)
On September 24 Jeana walked 6.8 miles through Surrey and spent the night at the Bonanza Motel on King George Boulevard. Her journal does not say exactly where the day’s walking…
Day 20 · Completed
British Columbia
On September 26 Jeana walked 8.2 miles along Highway 10 into Delta and tucked her tent into an empty lot on Ladner Trunk Road. People who had seen her on the TV news honked, waved…
Day 21 · Completed
Winskill Park, Tsawwassen, Delta, BC
On September 27 Jeana walked 8.7 miles from Ladner Trunk Road in Delta, partly along the Boundary Bay dyke trail, into Tsawwassen, in the traditional territory of the Tsawwassen…
Day 22 · Completed
Tsawwassen, Delta, British Columbia
On September 28 Jeana spent a Bone Marrow Awareness Day in Tsawwassen, recruiting marrow donors in the Tsawwassen First Nation community and around town. The day’s reading covers…
Day 23 · Completed
Tsawwassen, Delta, British Columbia
On September 29 Jeana spent a second Bone Marrow Awareness Day in Tsawwassen, taking the bus to Delta City Hall in the rain. The day’s reading turns to how a donor search can…
Day 24 · Completed
Town of Sidney Municipal Hall, 2440 Sidney Avenue, Sidney, BC
On September 30 Jeana walked 3.8 miles to the Tsawwassen ferry terminal, crossed to Swartz Bay and walked 3.8 more into Sidney: 7.6 walking miles in all. Water miles are excluded.
Day 25 · Completed
Sidney town centre, British Columbia
On October 1 Jeana held her Bone Marrow Awareness Day in Sidney and walked on to Saanichton the same day, 5.8 miles in all.
Day 26 · Completed
Lochside Trail near Cordova Bay, Saanich, British Columbia
On October 2 Jeana walked 5 miles from Saanichton down the Lochside Trail toward Cordova Bay, and a runner who passed her invited her home for the night.
Day 27 · Completed
British Columbia
On October 3 Jeana walked 6.1 miles down the Lochside Trail, past Royal Oak and Swan Lake, and found herself in downtown Victoria a day earlier than planned.
Day 28 · Completed
Inner Harbour, Victoria, British Columbia
On October 4 Jeana walked 1.2 miles along Victoria’s Inner Harbour, where the Coho ferry docks, and back by Government Street and the Legislature, connecting her route to her…
Day 29 · Completed
Downtown Victoria, British Columbia
On October 5 Jeana spent her Victoria awareness day at Camosun College, helping the Lifeline Blood Club and Canadian Blood Services with a stem cell swabbing event.
Day 30 · Completed
East Port Angeles, WA
On October 6 Jeana walked 0.8 miles to the Coho, crossed the strait in fog and walked 2.1 miles on to Port Angeles East. The crossing’s water distance is excluded from the mileage.
Day 31 · Completed
Clallam County, WA
On October 7 Jeana walked 14 miles from Port Angeles through Carlsborg to the Sunny Farms Country Store, helped along by two trail angels on bikes.
Day 32 · Completed
Clallam County, WA
On October 8 Jeana walked 10.4 miles from Sunny Farms through Sequim to Blyn, and stayed dry that night at the Sequim Bay Lodge.
Day 33 · Completed
Jefferson County, WA
On October 9 Jeana took a lovely wrong turn along Sequim Bay and walked 11 miles in all, into Discovery Bay, where Christie and Marc put her up in a little shed in their garden.
Day 34 · Completed
Jefferson County, WA
On October 10 Jeana walked 13 miles into Quilcene, with a detour to the Quilcene fiber fair after Christie brought back the socks she had left behind. Jan let her put her tent in…
Day 35 · Completed
Jefferson County, Washington
On October 11 Jeana walked on from Quilcene to Brinnon, 12.2 miles including make-up miles in the foothills, and spoke at the Brinnon Community Church that evening.
Day 36 · Completed
on Hood Canal, Mason County, Washington
On October 12 Jeana walked 10 miles from Brinnon past Triton Cove State Park to the Robbinswold Girl Scout Camp, where Morgan gave her an open-air cabin for the night.
Day 37 · Completed
US Highway 101 north of Lilliwaup, Mason County, Washington
On October 13 Jeana walked 10 miles from Robbinswold past the Hama Hama Oyster Saloon to a pullout 1.1 miles short of Lilliwaup, where Skeet and Edna gave her a lift to a room for…
Day 38 · Completed
Waterfront at Potlatch, US Highway 101, Mason County, Washington
On October 14 Jeana walked from the Glen Ayr through Hoodsport and Potlatch and on into the Skokomish Valley, 10.3 miles in all, and spent the night in a cabin at Potlatch, safe…
Day 39 · Completed
Mason County, WA
On October 15 Jeana walked 9 miles from Potlatch along US 101 to the first exit into Shelton, Mason County’s seat, where Lori, who had invited her from the back of a family van,…
Day 40 · Completed
Mason County, WA
On October 16 Jeana walked 8.1 miles from the north end of Shelton to the Little Creek Casino at Kamilche, detouring around a bridge with no shoulder. Little Skookum Inlet is part…
Day 41 · Completed
Downtown Shelton, Mason County, Washington
On October 17 Jeana spent the last Bone Marrow Awareness Day of the walk in Shelton, by the old railway station and downtown, talking with young and old about joining NMDP.
Day 42 · Completed
Thurston County, Washington (approximate)
On October 18 Jeana walked 11 warm miles from Kamilche toward Olympia, leaving 3.8 miles for the finish, and met Adrian and Izzy at the Capitol that evening.
Finish · Completed
Washington State Capitol, Olympia, WA
Jeana Moore completed the Marrow Walk in Olympia on October 20, 2026. Her journey around the Salish Sea carried a grandmother’s love and an invitation to consider joining an…
Take it off the screen
A coffee counter, a church foyer, a break room, a race table. Every sheet carries the code that opens Jeana’s walk, and a number to text for anyone who would rather not scan — no app, no wifi, nothing to hand back.Every sheet carries the code that opens Jeana’s walk — nothing to install, nothing to hand back. The number to text printed beside it is for joining NMDP, which registers people who live in the U.S., its territories and the freely associated states. If you live anywhere else, find your country’s registry.
Flyer
One page, for a wall or a noticeboard. The same sheet in three voices.
Table tent
One page that folds and stands on a table or a counter.
Everything else for running a drive
Host a registration drive at your school, work or place of worship, raise funds, or lend a skill. Tell us what you have in mind and we will help you plan it.