*WED OCT 01* *Bellevue to Edison Woodland Preserve, New Berlin, OH* The first day of October! Seven months on the March; only one month left! Overnight was a reminder that fall is here. The overnight temperature must have gotten down into the 50’s. The morning sky was covered with clouds; no way to see the sun. I saw a sign at 10:30am that registered the temperature at 68º. Today was a 23-mile day. I did get Sarah’s directions by email but found the route directions confusing and so probably did 28 miles of riding. There was a town along the way that was Thomas Edison’s birthplace. I probably could have spent an afternoon there. I had the long-sleeved Camarillo CERT shirt on under the maroon long-sleeved knit shirt that Heidi sent me. It kept me warm but when I got to camp the CERT shirt was soaking wet with sweat. During my ride I had a brainstorm about all the things that must change if we’re to have a livable future. I came up with something the March could do: Start Dave Finnegan’s program *Climate Change Is Elementary* <climatechangeiselementary.org> across the nation—North/South/East/West. It would mean gridding the nation and training facilitators for each section. It would put an enormous burden on Dave, but it would spread the program across the nation. We are staying in a 1,300-acre preserve that was once slated to be a site of a nuclear power plant. Because it was such a long March day, and I got to camp before those Marching, Kai asked me to help get the vegetables chopped for stir fry, and set up the stoves in the amphitheater. It’s been a long time since I was asked to work in the ‘kitchen’. The afternoon cools off and the sun starts to set earlier. Dinnertime went into dusk. There were a string of Christmas lights across part of the amphitheater. Someone plugged them in and JJ put up a tablet of newsprint and started a presentation on Extinction. He lectured from his Laptop computer. The amphitheater was crowded because we have had new people join us. I wasn’t able hear or see the presentation. Someone had erected the Taj Mahal tent. I put my sleeping gear in the tent and went to bed. -- Peace, David