Thank you!

Veteran walker Fran McLaughlin sent out a thank you note and photo collage after the 2012 Challenge Walk MS in Door County. Here’s what the note said:

“50 Miles X 5 years—250 miles walked for MS Research so far! Thanks to everyone who supported me on this walk, extortion emails notwithstanding. I power walk around the peninsula, and love the scenery. Apple orchards, cranes, winding roads, driftwood, ramshackle farm buildings, King Kong (?!) holding a Barbie, sunflowers and sunsets. The “reverse wave” below eventually made it from the front to the back of the line as we crossed the finish line! We wear blaze orange and we’ll fundraise until they find a cure! THANK YOU for your help in 2012!

“The Door Peninsula is beautiful! Cave Point was the start on Day 2. The Olympic Torch was part of an ‘Olympic Village’ rest stop—complete with the Queen in pastel and purse without any money in it! I traded my Sheriff’s badge for a British Bobbie uniform for the occasion. Photo of my favorite team, ‘Walk the Talk’ - two of these women in photo have also done the 50-mile walk for 5 years in honor of their mother who died from complications of MS. One has MS. Info you may never need to know, but once known, is ingrained in your brain: that white wildflower is known as ‘Dolls Eyes’ which is just a little creepy. The horse greets us every year we pass this way. Gus, at left, is the resort ‘mascot.’ Very old-school Wisconsin resort—like the rusty bottle and wine openers on the medicine cabinets in the bathrooms!”