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Two weeks ago Kevin Cornwell, who is originally from Omaha, is tracking about 32,000 steps each morning as he makes his way across northern Nebraska. Cornwell started his journey at the beginning of Sept. “This journey has been on my to do list,” Cornwell said. “You get to walk through it really slow. You get to smell different parts of Nebraska. The landscape change slowly over time. It's so much different than traveling on the highway.” Cornwell, a friend of Sue Devoy stopped in O'Neilll on Saturday, Sept. 13. Cornwell, a retired geologist, has traveled all over the world. He said his training makes him especially attuned to the state's landforms. “I've been trained to look at landscapes through the long lens of time and process. Just walking through Pine Ridge, through the Sandhills, through the river valleys, my head is going with all of these different processes. More than 65 million years ago Nebraska was on the floor of an ocean,” Cornwell said. While Cornwell is covering most of the miles on his own, his wife, Chris Belmer, is traveling with him to offer support and occasionally joins for a stretch of the walk. “I thought he was kind of crazy at first,” Belmer said. “We follow him on the Garmin app to make sure he's still moving.” The couple is also experiencing wonderful things along the way, such as visiting Golden Prairie Bison near Valentine. “We went out and basically fed a herd of bison." For Cornwell, this is a great way to reconnect with the nature and its wonderful sights and sounds.
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