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CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, December 20 - December 26, 1996 - 23
CAPE LIFE
Woman f'mishes cross continent walk at Cape Henlopen
By Dennis Forney
Somewhere out in Ketchum,
Idaho, where the adventurou
bones of Ernest Hemingway rest,
a "hippie dude" in a juice bar may
have felt a flood Of cool saltwater
flow through his spirit last Sunday
morning.
That was the day Ananda
Woyar waded into the choppy surf
of the Atlantic Ocean at Cape
Henlopen State Park with a forty
pound pack strapped to h& back
and a pocket-knif size piece of
quartz crystal clutched tightly in
her right hand. The "hippie dude"
in Ketchum gave Ananda the crys-
tal in the fall of 1995.
"He told me to throw this into
the Atlantic when I finished my
crossmg," said Ananda. "He said
that would mark the end of the
trip. But I didn't want to throw the
crystal. Having the experience I
was finishing, it was hard. But I
was grateful he ga,e me this way
to define the ending moment."
Her boots filling with ocean,
and the surf roiling around her,
Ananda paused a few moments
before throwing the crystal into a
breaking wave. Then, with a
smile born of a sense of great
accomplishment, the 26 year old
turned her strides westward for the
first time in more than a year and a
half and walked up the beach amid
the applause of friends and family.
The last time Ananda bad her
foot in an ocean was On April 1,
1995 when she started out from
the Pacific Ocean, at Seattle,
Washington, to start walking east-
ward across the United States. By
the time she stepped into the
Atlantic, her total trip included
3,900 miles.
"It's been one year, eight
months, and fifteen days," said
Ananda Sunday morning as she
set out for her last few miles from
the Cape Henlopen Motel in
Lewes. "What I'm feeling now is
relief and glee. I'm glad I finished
the walk and I'm glad it's over."
Ananda started her walk with
another woman - Betsy Castle - as
an effort to raise funds for salmon
preservation in the northwest. "I
saw a flyer talking about the trip
and I couldn't get it out of my
head. I knew about Peter Jenkins'
book "Walk Across America" and
the thought of sleeping under the
stars for 365 days Of the year
appealed to me. So I" called Betsy
up. We got along well and I
decided to go. I had just graduated
from University of Washington
with a degree in English so it
seemed like a good time."
The original group of walkers
included four. "Our fundraising
efforts were going slowly and the
others wanted to delay but I
pressed to get going. It ended up
only Betsy and I starting. Our
plan was to solicit donations and
sell T-shirts along the way."
Ananda and Betsy stayed
together until they reached
McPherson, Kansas at which time
they decided to go their separate
ways. "I think Betsy is still on her
way but I'm not sure where she is
at this point."
joins with Roxy
Within two hours of thinking
ihat maybe it would be good to
walk with a dog, Ananda hooked
up with a six month old greyhound
and Labrador mix named Roxy.
Continued on page 24
Ananda Woyar, Roxy, and
Ananda's mother, Beth
Adams (behind Roxy) stand
at the sign in Cape Henlopen
State Park designating the
eastern end of the American
Discovery Trail. With her are
some local folks and some
people who Ananda met and
was hosted by along the way
including two New York City
spelunkers she caved_with in
West Virginia. Among the
locals in the photo are Judy
Bye (left of Beth) who hosted
Ananda i.n Georgetown, and
Jdy's son Nevin and Ray
Riniker to the far right of the
photo. At right, Ananda and
Roxy in the surf at the end of
their journey.
Martha returns to make us feel unworthy
your underwear drawer. There is a
little bit of Martha Stewart in all of
US.
And this year'S special, once
again, was full of surprises and
helpful at-home tips. Now,
Martha always starts her program
at the front door of her home. And
you notice that even in the middle
of this holiday season, she still
keeps her sense of humor.
In keeping with this year's
theme for the holidays, "if it
doesn't move, it can be gilded,"
Martha has cleverly hidden 1Che
cars up on blocks by planting a
row of miniature trees sculpted in
the shape of her ex-husband's
head, who coincidentally is work-
ing as her pool man.
And you can barely see the 800
Chinese slave huts; the barbed
wire fence is smartly covered over
by a rare, endangered form of cab-
bage that is used as a garland. But
check out the door! It actually
shuts and the door knob is fas-
tened to the frame. I don't know,
how she does it.
But let's get right to it. The
biggest headache for people
before Christmas, besides the fact
that you don't know how to make
Wassail or even what it means, is
wrapping presents. You want that
nice clean look and those crisp
corners instead of those teeth
marks and dents; so that your
package doesn't look like some-
thing is actually growing in there
or is attached to some magnetic
field., There is nothing that drives
Martha bonkers more than a
messy package. Well, maybe
mustard stains.
And Martha, being the clown
that she is, insists that all wrapping
be done on a clean, cleared table,
knowing that eliminates ninety
percent of her audience, who
haven't seima clean table since it
was delivered. This year Martha
is wrapping her gifts with the
hides of endangered cattle only
found in a small remote areas of
Mongolia.
Most people make the mistake
of cutting their paper with a dull
scissors or ripping'it along a sharp
surface.
But Martha shows us that in
order to properly wrap a Christ-
mas package, you need to line the
box up with a sextant and then
This is one of my favorite times
of the year. With absolutely noth-
ing done on your holiday list, you
oen still curl up on the couch with
a glue gun and some #18 inch wire
and watch the real expert on the
"Martha Stewai-t Special," turn
your home into a maze of enchant-
ed ornaments by folding and
refo!ding tiny pieces of paper,
over and over again, until'the very
life blood is sucked out of you.
Oh, come on now, I know that
more than a few of you have wmt-
fully eyed those empty pizza box-
es in your neighbor's trash, won-
dering just how you could add
some colorful yarn and powdered
sugar to make an exquisite pack-
age to place under the tree.
It's O.K., you can admit, for all
the joking around, you've been
hoarding away those plastic twists
from hefty bags and more than
once, someone has walked in on
you as you were counting those
pipe cleaners hidden in the back of
AROUND TOWN
Dennis Fomey photos
adjust the size of the paper by tap-
ping into an orbiting satellite and
carefully cut along the edges with
a cutting tool from around the
1800's. With this method, that
extra one inch of paper is not
wasted.
But the real highlight of this
year's show was a surprise drop-in
guest, Michael Jorden of the
Chicago Bulls. The Pope can-
celled at the last minute. You
could tell Martha was blown away
by Michael Jordan's appearance,
just by the way she kept stepping
in front of him whenever the cam-
era was on.
Well, if you missed the Martha
Stewart special this year, you will
just have to satisfy that need by
folding this column, then baking
it, sticking gold leaf on it, sprin-
kling it with worry beads and cut-
ting along the edges for a beautiful
Christmas ornament. Of course,
you could have done this from the
beginning.
Nancy Katz