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[ransley]

Spam, are you in charge of BM advertising.

[HeyBub]

Nonsense. He's posting from Flemington, NJ.

Benjamin Moore's headquarters is in Montvale, NJ.

That's over SEVENTY MILES apart!

[Ed Pawlowski]

That is about three days by horseback. No way they could be connected.

[David Nebenzahl]

On 2/14/2009 2:36 PM Ed Pawlowski spake thus:

No way.

I recently read Rockwell Kent's [1] autobio, /It's Me O Lord/, in which he recounts many journeys he made both on horseback and on foot. (He grew up in what was literally the horse-and-buggy era.) He could have

*easily* covered that distance in less than a day.

[1] The great, unabashedly Red painter, illustrator, architect and writer.

[Ed Pawlowski]

We both may be correct depending on terrain, weather, etc.

average times are calculated, loosely, on 20-30 miles per day, (depending on terrain) with a rest day every 4-6 days. Sitting on a walking horse for hours and hours at a time is agonizing. It is much easier to trot and canter 25 or 50 miles than to walk/jog 15. -for the horse as well as the rider (speaking of a fit horse) A horse can walk about 3mph so that gives you about ten mile legs at the walk between breakfast and lunch and lunch and supper. Notice those are average times, not maximum times.

Departure Destination Mileage Minimum

Travel time Average

Travel time Comments on route or terrain.

Greenholm Tower Hills 50 miles 5 hrs 2 days On Great East Road

Buckland Bree 50 miles 5 hrs 2-3 days Overland, inc. forest and downs.

Forlond Mithlond / Grey Havens 225 miles 3 days 8 days The Gray havens are on both sides of there the River Lhun just widens to become the Gulf of Lhun. There does not appear to be a bridge across the River Lhun and you will need to cross for quickest transit; so assume a ferry. Mithlond/Grey Havens Over Tower Hills 65 miles 7 hours 2 days Either over or around Tower Hills slows pace.