Year: 2016

Last night, we had barely settled in for the night when the thru hiker that camped near us yelled out  “Bear coming through camp”. I unzipped our vestibule and peeked out of the tent to see Mr. Bear strolling between our tents maybe 10-15 feet away. We started yelling “ get out of here” but […]

We had a good nights sleep last night in our own quiet forest. Although the forest was quiet, there was some noise emanating from both tents. The girls were practicing synchronized snoring for the Olympics. A song went through my head, Grizzlies to the left of me, Grizzlies to the right, here I am stuck […]

We get up and have a breakfast of  a couple of apple turnovers that we bought at the store yesterday. Then we go downstairs to wait for our ride. Pipers Mom picks us up around 0745 and we head towards the trail. Along the way, we stop to pick up a hitch hiker,  Robert, from […]

Just added June 20 to June 24. Sorry still no pics. Enjoy

A fairly relaxing day today. We went and walked about a mile up the road to Cravings for breakfast. We each had a very good breakfast burrito. After getting back to the motel, we went over the grocery list. Carol was going down to the Dollar general with Shannon and I am going to walk […]

We had a good nights sleep in our room at the Antlers Motel. Today, they will move us from the handicap room to the room we have reserved for the next two nights. We get a text from Shannon around 0800 saying that they are at the highway and waiting for a ride to town. She […]

This time on the trail is very different. It is not different from a hiking perspective but is very different from a journal perspective. I am having trouble finding computers to type the journals on and doing it from my phone is very problematic. In Europe, I carried an I-pad to type on but not […]

I had kind of a restless sleep last night as I heard some critters stirring about. I believe it was deer and they never seemed to come near the tent but I could hear them moving in the woods. Shannon and Kym left before we were done packing up. When we are almost ready to […]

We woke up this morning to the sound of the Scottish Brothers breaking their camp. They each have their own tent and last evening when they set up, they got in their tents and talked to each other non stop for about 2 hours. I am not sure what you could talk about that long […]

Last night, I heard something by my head. It woke me up and when I moved, I could hear it running through the woods. I listened for a while and determined that it did not sound like a bear, too nimble, so I thought that it was probably a deer. When I woke up in […]