This is our twelth day and we have covered over 100 miles, which is roughly 5% of our jounrey. 5% might seem like nothing, but this being what it is it seems like such a big percentage to me. So much has already happened that I do not know where to start. We started out in the rain which hardly seems fair. All in all we have been doing really good though. People have been so nice to us and luck has been our constant gaurdian. Our trail names have been discovered and therefore Alex will heretofore be recognized as Frank N. Stein and I shall answer to Brave Little Toaster (BLT, Toaster, Toast ect.)
So, we have seen so many rocks!!!! We have also seen three bears, a dear (which I did not see,) toads, frogs, a dead possum, 3/4ths of North Americas mosquito population, several turtles of various sizes ranging from hand to half Pork, a four-five foot copperhead rattlesnake and who knows what else.
Things that I have learned, keep your head up when your close, everything breaks, no one needs 5 liters of water and are you gunna eat that?
We have met so many interesting people in places that no one goes to, they just pass by. Who knew that things were happening in there places? Right now we are taking our first zero (no hiking.) We are staying with the ex Mayor of Unionville, NJ. The “Mayor” along with Butch and Bill are three very very generous people who live here. They let all thruhikers stay here, take a shower, have dinner and breakfast and use a computer. They are even Pork friendly. All they want is to hear why you are hiking the trail and to give you a little motivation to keep it up and to give you a litte talk about goals and keeping up the morals of what we have learned while on the trail. It has been indescribable how kindly we have been treated or how meaningful their words have been to me.
Obviously I cannot write everything down, but needless to say, it has been an adventure!
~Brave Little Toaster