MAY 16TH 2010 DAY FOURTEEN

Today was spent on feet, weather acclimation and administrative issues. I walked some but not for the journey, just for testing new insoles, loosening up and climatizing more. We are good and will continue harder than ever tomorrow. I am using this blog to clarify some things that might be in question. I have heard from friends that someone has been posting negative comments on the site. Apparently someone thinks that I am not honoring my daughter on this walk. They think that I am out here "thinking that I am on television." and that my blogging is disrespectful. I want this person and any others who may feel this way to understand something. This is my daughter and I am the person who knew her best. Hopefully everyone can start to see what kind of girl she was by now. She was like me. She liked to meet other people and had no problems doing it. She loved anything funny and loved to make people laugh. Anyone who ever knew her, knew that she was just like me. I know if she was carrying my ashes that she would be doing the same, whatever it takes to help her and help me. I never said that I was going to do a 3000 mile funeral procession. I said that I was going to take my daughters ashes and travel the country for her as well as me. This was never meant to be a silent walk, swallowing the pain that I have been swallowing for the last year and a half. I write as if Mackenzie is looking over my shoulder and laughing along and understanding how I try to compensate for my feelings and reading how I am doing EVERYTHING I can to keep her memory alive and introduce her to people she never met. To the person who wrote the negative comments on the site, not only do you disrespect my daughter by posting on HER website, you also disrespect me and our memories. I notice everyone that signed the guestbook left there real name, with the exception of you. If you have the guts to comment, have the guts to leave your name. Is your life so small and uneventful that you feel the need to lash out at others. You obviously have done nothing in your life and will never do anything in your life. You wrote that 90% of what I say is B.S. and 10% is true, than know that the following is part of that 10%. I truly feel sorry for you, but know this, if this continues, I will take a personal interest in making you my follow on mission and exploiting you for what you really are, someone who obviously didn't get enough attention growing up and someone who wants to try and add to the sorrow that a mourning family is already going through. If you think you know a way to better memorialize her, get off your ass and do it. I will take all the help I can get. If you were family, friend or enemy, you obviously didn't know her, so you have no right disturbing this site or the people who have whole heartedly support this journey and Mackenzie's memory. Its a shame that a young girl so full of promise and dreams is gone and a person full of hate and ignorance still walks the earth. To all of the normal people that frequent this site, I apologize that you have to read this but it is my only way to let this person know that this is not acceptable behavior and that it will not be tolerated. My web guy has already deleted the absurd comments and will continue to if necessary. I am so pleased that we have your support and I am forever grateful. I already have my friends in law enforcement researching the IP address and will post the info once I have it. We will continue to march and we hope that you all stay with us. I hope this didn't come across wrong and thank you for being a part of day fourteen.
*It always made me proud when someone would say that I was just like Mackenzie or she was just like me, or, "you can see where she got that from." She only got the good parts of me, and thank God, none of the bad parts. She was and is, what I wished I could be.