Yet, you get the impression from the text (and images) that they WALK the 125 miles in two day - 62 miles a day. Even on a flat road, 4 miles per hour is quite brisk walking, and few of us can keep up that speed more than fifteen hours a day for two days. In a lanscape like this, I wouldn't count on more than half that speed, or even less.
This journey is so impressive as it is that there is no need to exaggregate in an attempt to impress even more. Boasting can destroy far more than modesty will hide. I suspect that the kids themselves would be far more modest than the news media presenting them...
Yet, you get the impression from the text (and images) that they WALK the 125 miles in two day - 62 miles a day. Even on a flat road, 4 miles per hour is quite brisk walking, and few of us can keep up that speed more than fifteen hours a day for two days. In a lanscape like this, I wouldn't count on more than half that speed, or even less.
This journey is so impressive as it is that there is no need to exaggregate in an attempt to impress even more. Boasting can destroy far more than modesty will hide. I suspect that the kids themselves would be far more modest than the news media presenting them...
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Yet, you get the impression from the text (and images) that they WALK the 125 miles in two day - 62 miles a day. Even on a flat road, 4 miles per hour is quite brisk walking, and few of us can keep up that speed more than fifteen hours a day for two days. In a lanscape like this, I wouldn't count on more than half that speed, or even less.
This journey is so impressive as it is that there is no need to exaggregate in an attempt to impress even more. Boasting can destroy far more than modesty will hide. I suspect that the kids themselves would be far more modest than the news media presenting them...