| June 27, 2005 |
| Leaving
Pinefield Hut about 7:15am |
| I messed up
this a little, but the high light of the day is; This was a smooth
trail like a park in the woods easy going. I had my 10 miles
in about 10:30am so I went ahead with 3 miles to go. On the
last 3 miles I met a person, a section hiker, from SC as it comes up
and I walked with him for a while. |
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I hitched a ride from a man who maintains
the AT. His name was Harry. He offered me a ride to the
Elkton Motel. Went to the food mart and got some dog food and
myself a sandwich and a pop. Came back to the motel and the lady was
there, no PO box drop. He ran me back into town to the Post
Office and I pick up mail drop and he takes me back to the motel.
He gave me his phone number and was going to see if his wife was
going out to eat and invited me to with them. He even invited
me to stay at his home the night. But I decided I had clothes
to wash and stuff to get done and take a rain check. When I
got to the motel I realized that I had forgot Simon's back pack, so
I called him and he would bring the back pack in the morning when he
was going to take me back. Then there was a knock on the door
and there was Harry with Simon's back. He though Simon might
need it to for his bowl to eat and drink form. So I thanks him
for all his kindness. Then there was another knock on the door
and guess who it was? Will Peake. He had picked up
Tortuga on Rt33. He was on his way to his daughters and had
read the last entries in the journal and thought he might be able to
meet up with me. Really surprised me!! Will took us out
to Chinese restaurant and bought our meals for the evening, then
Tortuga stayed with me and Will go himself a room the next morning
after we loaded up everything, he took us down to the little country
store and we got a good breakfast before we stated on the trail. |
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It was about 8:25 when we got started on
the trail and Will was going to meet his daughter and come back and
pick us up on the Skyline Drive by Friday morning. It was an
uneventful day. Got into some boulders and rock steps that we
has to go down. We could hear thunder off in the distance and
we knew it would rain sometime during the day. By the
afternoon it has become very muggy and hot where the water was just
dripping off our brows and legs and elbows. We made it to the
Lewis Mt. Campground |
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The last 2 day certainly have been crazy,
but I guess they were intended to happen. |
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Swing'n Jane and
Simon |
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