Character Illustration: Ameranth
Character Name: Ameranth
Player Name: Kelly
Age: adult
Race: Human
Class: Adventurer
Alignment: Neutral Good
Skills: walking long distances, cake decorating, camping, day dreaming
Short Biography: Well I grew up tall and I grew up right, with those Maine kids on those Maine nights.
Video game and comic book enthusiast, ADHD poster child, nature girl, adventurer – all apt descriptions. If I could have a solar/wind/water powered tree house or cottage in the woods tricked out with gaming consoles and computers, I would be a happy happy person.
Quote: “To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.” ~ e. e. cummings
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Companion
Companion Illustration: Anna
Name: Anna
Age: 4
Type: Dog
Breed: Alaskan Husky
Likes: Running, chasing small animals, rolling in gross things
Dislikes: Baths, poodles, wearing a pack
Short Biography: Anna was born in the White Mountains in New Hampshire to a hard working young sled dog. While fast and ever energetic, Anna did not make the next gen sled team alongside the rest of her litter. Instead she came home with me.
Now Anna travels with me wherever I may go, providing extra excitement and protection to all of my journeys.
Kelly-I’m Molly’s Peace Corps/Washington DC friend, Julia. Although my parents just moved from Northern Indiana, I have lots of friends in Wabash and North Manchester if you need a hookup. Also email me if you need a place to stay out here in Colorado. I know you can stay with Jon but we’re here too.
Hi Julia! Right now I’m heading from Kokomo north/west towards Logansport, so I think I’ll just miss Wabash and North Manchester area.
Kelly,
We met you as you were coming in to the park in Gothenburg, NE yesterday.
So when we got home from our weekend with our ‘Campin Dancers’ group (we square dance) . I looked up your website and read most of your entries.
What an adventure!!! We just wish you a safe journey and will keep up with your posts. Good luck….and God Bless you. Will keep you in my prayers.
Roger and Angie Wilson
Hi Kelly,
Glad to see you and Anna are doing well. I’ve been keeping an eye on your posts, wishing I could journey with you. Hummm, maybe someday. Stay safe, and I will keep following you on your journey. :)
Becky Rogers
(your Paw Paw to Cumburland MD friend)
This is from Tom with the white husky dog at the Florisant, Colorado gas station. Glad I got to meet you. You are an inspiration to this 67 year old.
Hey Tom! It was great to meet you too, glad you stopped to chat.
Kelly you uncle Tim Wells emailed me this morning telling me of your quest. wow being a 50 year old with three young kids and a hectic life I must say I am jealous and impressed. Tim and I grew up together in NK, RI. and are still very close friends. I am sending this because I live in Park City, Utah. It appears like you are more Moab southern Utah bound but if you need a place to regroup you can stay with Dorothy and the fam (chocolte lab to play with your dog) in Park City right off of I80. Call or text me (Bart Adams 801-599-2748 or email badams@summit-enviro.com). Especialy if you are in any kind of bind. Peace and good karma your way !
Kelly
Loving your adventures- hope you make it safely to the Pacific and that the video of that ending is on You tube!!!~Jenny*
Hi Kelly and Anna -
I met you this weekend at the Joshua Tree Lake Campground. I just wanted to write to wish you luck and a safe journey for these next two weeks! I’ve enjoyed exploring your site here and learning about your trip so far. I look forward to following the rest as well.
It was great meeting you both! Happy Halloween!
Cheers,
Jaimi (aka Candy Corn)
Hi, Kelly. Nate Damm pointed out your site to me. I tried to walk across America back in 2009, but didn’t finish. I had my German Shepherd with me, but I also had a support vehicle then. He LOVED going with me. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him happier then when we were on the road.
I plan to try again this April, but I won’t have a support vehicle this time. I’m worried about bringing my big guy. I don’t know what to do with him when I shop for food or meet up with people along the way (what if someone wants to show me some neat something or other?). And I’m afraid that by having him with me, there will be less people willing to open their homes to me.
How have you handled these issues?
Hey Kelly. Wish I would’ve heard of your trek earlier so I could cheer you on — maybe put you up and treat you to dinner while moseying through Colorado! Next time. I met Nate Damm the other day as well (see post above), small world amongst us long distance walkers I guess.
On my bucket list of things to do is walk the Erie Canal, too! I walked a few days of it while on my walk around the world, but that only teased my taste buds — must do the whole thing. I’ll read about your journey. (Actually, I may bike it…I’m not held prisoner by the walking goal.)
Thanks for contacting me, and huge congratulations.
Polly Letofsky
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Hey Amarenth! I’m a Guild Wars player as well, congrats on your role as Nick in Guild Wars 2! ;)
Anyway, I have to say you inspired me. I love this idea, and I’m going to try and try it next summer before college, hopefully with me and 7 friends if I can find people willing to come along. What I’d really like to do is start with a bare minimum of cash, and get by not just on the goodness of strangers, but by performing odd jobs and helping people as we move around the country. I was just wondering if you have any explicit tips on route or dealing with weather or what not. I’d be starting from Florida. Thanks for the inspiration!!
Hi Kelly! I must say I am really inspired by your trip. I too am a Guild Wars fan. and congrats on becoming a Guild Wars NPC with Ameranth. I have always wanted to do something like this before. Now that I have learned people have already done this. I know that I can do it too, and I will. One of your recent comments made by Indigo mentioned starting from Florida. Well it just so happens that’s where I will be starting from as well. I too am trying to put together a group to join me. We should start a guild or alliance of travelers. Thanks you for not only being an inspiration, but also for bringing back the call of adventure!!
hey Kelly, i’ve always loved adventure but my parents told me walking across america was a bad idea and now they guilted me into thinking it was a bad idea. thanks for inspiring me. if you ever want a walking partner i’d be happy to join you. oh and Nicolas Flores idea of guild or alliance of travelers is such a good idea, more people, more safety, more chances to see the world, and you could give hope to so many people it’s amazing. real adventure, real hope, real freedom. alot of us wish we could do this like you did.