What a trip across America! You really get to experience a lot of different culture on this one. I really wanted to start earlier than May 4th, but the weather was atrocious in Minnesota. It still snowed on me for the first few days. I sprained my mcl around the end of week one and that slowed me down. Freezing temps and short day light hours didnt help either. Late May it smoothed out into very enjoyable weather, good temps, longer days, and feet feeling better. Illinois and Iowa I hit a pocket of storms and walked through 4 tornadoes, hours of lightning , high winds, flooding rains, what a mess. After that calmed down the heat started and eventually built into a heat dome. Walking a week or two in heat advisory triple digits. Drinking two gallons or more of fluids and electrolytes a day and hiking into the night to reach the miles. Coming through Mississippi and Louisiana storms rolled in getting rid of the heat and bringing light rain that persisted the rest of the trip and was a welcome relief. I ended as a tropical storm was hitting and just before they closed the roads for the storm surge.
Notable details: 1 dog attack, dozens of near misses, particularly in Louisiana. 4 pairs of shoes, 2 pairs of pants, 6 pairs of socks, and my secondary gps tracker (watch) died the day before I finished .
Detours: there was a bridge in Wisconsin that was demod last year and I took the pedestrian ferry across . 2nd one was in Missouri near St Charles. The Discovery Bridge is under construction and closed to pedestrians. I took the Katy trail for roughly 25 miles parallel to the route until it reconnected near Alton / Ferguson MO.