RAIN but I can't Complain! These last few days have been great, so I will catch you up on what's going on. Sunshine is dealing with sciatica, which makes it painful to walk and even worse with a pack on. In order for her to heal we have been doing low miles and really taking it easy.
On sunday we had done 8 miles when we came so a road crossing near South Mountain PA. there we discovered there was a bar/restaurant 1.3 miles down the road. After walking the 1.3 miles we found the bar, had food and drinks and began to meet the locals. SunShine had a bag of ice on her leg which must be the International sign for injury. This is how we met Travis and Kristen an amazingly awesome couple from South mountain, who are extremely generous and kind. They invited us to stay at their house and take sunshine to the chiropractor. We stayed at their house for two nights and had a great time around the fire making jokes and playing catch phrase...the girls won ugh. Thank you guys so much!
We were in no hurry this morning, we left south mountain about noon and started hiking north again, after about 6 miles we came to a park with a food stand and grabbed some lunch. About this time the rain started...we sat in the rain eating our for and lo and behold Grim, whistle, dump truck and clever girl come strolling up. It was so great to see those guys again, and of course the shenanigans began immediately.
The last shelter was beautiful with flowers and a creek running through it, but Sunshine and I decided to move on while the rest of the group set up camp. Which brings us to where we are now. Thunder in the distance and the smell of more rain caused us to make a quick decision to make camp, and thank god we did not even 10 seconds after we got ourselves and our gear in the tent the skies opened up. Now I lay here listening to the rain and sunshine eat almonds lol. Tomorrow we will reach the official halfway point and the half gallon challenge. Hopefully we can get 15 or more miles in. Good night from Rocksilvainia...
Carpenter
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