Miller Marathon #9

Finished my eighth, and final #millermarathon last night, while walking 227 miles from Rexburg toward the #majesticfamilyreunion in Sandy, Utah. I have now completed 209.9 miles. Now have landed somewhere just east of North Salt Lake, UT. This one is dedicated to my third little brother , Brandon Miller Brandon is almost exactly 12 years younger than me. He capped off our seven kids perfectly, adding another red-head to our Neapolitan bucket of ice cream. Though he was not your standard feisty, Irish type of red-head, he was even-tempered and so much fun. He was a smiley little guy - until he got to be not such a little guy, Brandon is now 6’5” and has a couple of inches on his ‘big’ brother. Though we are quite a bit apart age-wise, it was fun to watch him grow up. He became quite the baller and played at Olympus High. I had married and move to Seattle by this time, so unfortunately didn’t get to watch him play too often. Though I did go watch him play in the State playoffs in 2000. It is fun to tell him that he had never beat me in basketball, but that was because the last time we played, he was 7 and I was 19. I had to retire before he got too tall. 🙂 Brandon loves to go fishing, and has caught more fish than all of the other Miller boys put together. Though there was a time he came up to Washington with my parents for a visit when he was about 18. We went fishing down on the Green River and neither of us had caught anything for an hour or so. He went downstream from me for a bit and a few minutes later he came running through the trees towards me yelling excitedly: ‘I GOT ONE!!’ As I happily turned around to see his prize fish, he pulls his catch towards my line of sight, and I could hardly believe my eyes - It was a lunker. A nice three inch guppy he had caught. He started laughing his head off. That was the only fish that was caught that day. I have loved watching Brandon become a father and start a family of his own. We love to see them more often as his wife, Becca, is from this area, and they come up to visit her family as well. Brandon is a great help with my parents and takes his kids over to do yard work at their house and helps them out so much. He is a man of great humor and great faith. Though he is my baby brother, I look up to him in many ways. I love you Brandon! #toddlingaroundtheworld Total Distance: 16,710 miles Completed: 16,693 miles Remaining: 17 miles Somewhere north of Olympia, WA!