This post is not by Monty or Bill, but by me, Alexa, their daughter. I’ll be sending their resupply boxes out, and they will be mailing their journal back which I will then post here on the blog. This means that you’ll probably see a few days of no posts, then suddenly an entire week’s worth! Keep checking back, if there is a lull that only means they are hiking furiously on their way to the next town and will be mailing back a journal.

Photographs
Both Monty & Bill each have cameras and will be taking pictures, but unlike the text journals, the memory cards will only be mailed about once every 3-4 weeks. Initially I’ll be posting the text of the journal, then a few weeks later you’ll suddenly see a bunch of photos in the posts. If you want notification of that, tweet me at @zimrahil and I can tweet you whenever a new photo post is up.

Who’s Talking?
In order to quickly tell who is writing the journal entry:

Monty: Her text will look like this.

Bill: His text will look like this

Alexa: Occasionally I like to add my comments and they will look like this.

Please continue to comment, if I know the answer I’ll be replying, if not I’m sure they will be happy to respond upon returning. I tried to persuade them to bring an iPhone but to no avail.

As a fun added feature, with Monty’s consent, I’ll be putting in the Walk to Rivendell stats. We are both Lord of the Rings fans, and basically someone went through the books and atlas to put together mileage charts for Frodo’s journey to Mt. Doom. As a little joke at the end of each post we’ll put where Bill & Monty would “be” had they started out from Bag End. For more info on that visit the official: Walk to Rivendell web site.