Isaac Lewis
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But he looked right through me, and he kept going.
He kept going down the road, and I was too weak to follow him.
I really doubt he was real.
The last day, they say I only covered 11 miles.
I saw this woman on the road way up ahead, waiting for me.
She was wearing all black.
Not a dress, but you know the kind of clothes that someone who works at a kitchen wears?
And I knew, I knew that she was a baker.
She never said anything.
She wasn't holding anything, but I knew.
I knew this is what she was.
I know she wanted me to keep going.
She was going to give me something if I walked far enough, but I didn't know what.
I was going to have to look for it, though.
It was going to be in a cool, dark place, which I wanted so badly to hear at that point because it had gotten so hot.
All I could think of was this cool, dark place, and I was happy again.
I had a reason to care.
I had a reason to keep walking.
And if you read Shannon's diary, there's a baker too.