David K
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SLOW BAJA PODCAST: The Mission Walker
A really interesting cancer survivor and how walking the mission road in both Californias saved her life. Don't fear dying... fear not
living.
New podcast alert:
Author and Cancer Survivor Edie Littlefield Sundby
The Mission Walker A 1600-Mile Journey of Healing On The El Camino Real
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/slow-baja/id1511808843...
Edie Littlefield Sundby was arrogantly healthy when she received word that she had stage-four gallbladder cancer. The doctors gave her three months to
live. "I had to kill cancer before it killed me," Sundby said. Seventy-nine rounds of chemotherapy, five-and-a-half years, and four radical surgeries
later, she was in remission. The battle took half of her liver, ten inches of colon, two inches of her stomach, part of her throat, and all of her
right lung. Amazingly, her spirit was intact!
While driving up highway 101 to Stanford Hospital for surgery, she noticed the Mission bells denoting the El Camino Real. "I had this obsession to hug
them, to follow them, I had to walk the old California Mission Trail. I had to walk all 21 Missions, saying a prayer of thanksgiving at each one." On
a cold, rainy day in February 2013 -six months after losing her right lung, she started walking from Mission San Diego to Sonoma. Fifty-five days and
800 miles later, she made it. "When I got to Sonoma, I was soaring; I did not want to stop!"
In 2015, when cancer returned, and she knew it would, she reflected on how happy the walk to Sonoma had made her. In an instant, she decided to walk
all the Missions in Baja. "It was wonderful to have that to look forward to; I had another walk; I had a mission I had something larger (to focus on)
than what was going on inside of me." Through the internet, she found guide and outfitter Trudi Angel in Loreto. "I had the promise of a burro for ten
days and a vaquero for five days, that was good enough for me." She walked across the border to Tijuana and boarded a flight to Loreto, Mexico. Tune
in for the rest of this inspirational story.
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MexicoTed
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Incredible story and happy it's been recorded on the podcast. Same for you DK, happy to see you interviewed too.
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David K
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Quote: Originally posted by MexicoTed  | | Incredible story and happy it's been recorded on the podcast. Same for you DK, happy to see you interviewed too. |
Thanks Ted!
I proudly wore my Baja Talk Radio T-shirt during my time on Michael's podcast... as I did on one day of the Trail of Missions show filming...
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Edie's interview was great... and coming up is Harry Crosby, at 95 years of age!
Last November...
Harry, Me, Ryland, and Doug ('BajaNomad')
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