May 11 2021

Trionic User Edie begins healing journey in San Antonio along Old Spanish Trail

Meet proud Trionic Veloped user Edie Littlefield Sundby. She has one lung, she’s also missing part of her liver, colon, and stomach. The California woman underwent 79 rounds of chemotherapy and four major surgeries after being diagnosed with stage 4 gall bladder cancer in 2007. Now, 69-year-old Edie is on a mission, walking from San Antonio to Florida with her trusted Trionic Veloped Trek 14:er.


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Edie Littlefield Sundby, left, of San Diego, CA, and Joyce Blue Summers, of Alamogordo, NM, walk along East Houston Street, following the Old Spanish Trail through San Antonio on May 7, 2021.

Edie Littlefield Sundby, left, of San Diego, CA, and Joyce Blue Summers, of Alamogordo, NM, walk along East Houston Street, following the Old Spanish Trail through San Antonio on May 7, 2021.
Edie Littlefield Sundby, right, of San Diego, CA, and Joyce Blue Summers, left, of Alamogordo, NM, pause to talk with Charlotte Kahlost, of San Antonio and founder of Old Spanish Trail 100, as they walk along East Houston Street, following the Old Spanish Trail through San Antonio on May 7, 2021.
Edie Littlefield Sundby takes a break in the shade to eat and drink on East Houston Street as she walks along the Old Spanish Trail through San Antonio on May 7, 2021.
Edie Littlefield Sundby, of San Diego, CA, walks along East Houston Street, following the Old Spanish Trail through San Antonio on May 7, 2021.

Photos by Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News

Read all about her journey and why she believes walking saved her life in San Antonio San Antonio Express-News.


Vintage map of the Old Spanish Trail transcontinental highway, running from San Diego, California to St. Augustine, Florida

The Old Spanish Trail transcontinental highway

The Old Spanish Trail transcontinental highway was one of the most prominent and persistent American auto trails. It connects the old Spanish colonial towns of St. Augustine, Florida on the Atlantic coast and San Diego, California on the Pacific. The OST highway passes through some of America's best tourist destinations including St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Mobile, New Orleans, San Antonio, Tombstone, Tucson and San Diego.
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