Archives for 2014

Location: Doyle Hotel, Duncannon, PA I slept well last night despite sharing the bed with Not Bad. The bed was surprisingly comfortable. I went to the diner across the street and ordered my usual breakfast: French toast, two scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, and orange juice. I didn’t get a bagel this morning. Breakfast was good, […]

Location: Doyle Hotel, Duncannon, PA I’ve failed to keep up with my journal for the last couple of days. Pennsylvania is a rocky mess, and the vistas are unremarkable. Little to tell really. This morning though, Druid and Not Bad met me at the shelter. Not Bad didn’t make it to the shelter last night. […]

Location: Microtel, Hamburg, PA Druid, Not Bad, Aaron, Moses, and I stayed in the hotel room last night. Somehow I got one of the beds to myself. We watched football and Sportscenter all night and I slept well in a bed without anyone else in it. I think it would be my first bed alone […]

Location: Microtel, Hamburg, PA Katie and I woke up in the cold morning tired after a restless night. If one of us moved in the night it would be impossible to avoid disturbing the other in the small two person tent. The tent may be a two-man tent, but it’s a tight squeeze. It reminds […]

Location: Pocahontas Stream Campground Katie arrived in Palmerton, PA around 11:00pm last night. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw her waving to me from the parking lot. I have come so far and finally received a visit from someone from my life before the trail. Katie looked the same, but certainly I look […]

Location: Hampton Inn outside Palmerton, PA Everyone slept late this morning after getting to bed late. Ten o’clock seemed like six o’clock as everyone limped around on sore feet from the rocky walk yesterday into town. Not much went on today. The rain fell until about 4:00pm, so everyone hesitated to return to the trail. […]

Location: City Jail, Palmerton, PA At 4:30am, I was rudely woken by cold rain leaking through the roof of my tent. The rain had begun at midnight when I finally fell asleep. A puddle of the cold September rain gathered on my tent fly and grew for hours. Eventually the tent fabric gave way to […]

I got a very late start this morning. When I first woke up, it was raining. I didn’t want to get out of my tent. More and more, recently, I avoid hiking in the rain. It is just such a miserable experience that I will take zeros to avoid the rain. Many hikers not hiking […]

I decided not to slack-pack today. 6:00am was just too early for me to get moving in a town. The bunks at the church hostel are tucked in a room with no windows. It’s a cave. I woke up around 7:30am through because I needed to get some chores completed and hike out at a […]