Matt Hackmann

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A Glorious Celebration!

I should hardly have to mention anymore my glorious walk for free vacation time. The graph has been sitting there up at the top of my blog page slowly counting up to the grand total of 750,000. And today, one week before deadline, I have hit that total. This little exercise has added quite a bit to my life, from friendly competition with co-workers to some much needed think time. Now, to celebrate this achievement, I give you some more photos of my journeys.

Signs

I've done a lot of sign stuff already, but these are things I decided didn't deserve an entire rant. [gallery=Walking: Signs]![](http://images.dxprog.com/blog/walking_sign2.jpg "I don't really feel the "Good Hands" part here, because you obviously hired a 15-year-old YouTube commenter to write the copy for you sign. See what I did there?")[/gallery]

Graffiti

On one of my usual trails, there is a tunnel underneath a major city street. This single tunnel is home to quite a bit of interesting (and disturbing) grafitti. [gallery=Walking: Grafitti Galore]![](http://images.dxprog.com/blog/walking_pulp_fiction.jpg "He dares you to say "what" again!")[/gallery]

Nature's Glory

Just some photos of nature being awesome. [gallery=Walking: Nature][/gallery]

Interesting Oddities

A couple things that didn't fit elsewhere. [gallery=Walking: Oddities][/gallery]

Thus ends my pictorial report of my epic wanderings. I'm thinking, perhaps, that I might film a "documentary" at some point, but we'll see what happens there.