Only steps away from the Shenandoah national park and it feels so awesome! Without much rain and near perfect temperatures hiking has been going very well the last few miles! Wildlife has been abundant in the last week which brings up the next topic!
Wildlife Count:
3 Turtles - one very large snapping turtle smushed on the side of the road
6 Deer - a few which I have been able to watch for five minuets or longer
3 Turkeys - they fly away pretty fast, so you have to be pretty quite to see them!
3 bears - one that wanted food, one that was scared and one that wanted to know why i was looking at him!
Countless Squrals and birds
3 black snakes- they could care less that you are trying to walk down the trail
lots of cool orange lizards - not quite as cool a the Geico lizard
tons of chipmunks - apparently also known as mini bears
a few hiking dogs
and the random horses and cows in farmers fields!
The dynamic Triad is going to be apart for a while as Sticks took a day of with his father in Buena Vista, VA and Hedge Hog will be hiing with a friend from home at a much slower pace for a week or so. But I am confident that we will be annoying each other again soon enough!
I had the pleasure of meeting a section hiker from the Florida Keys. He was a very wise man who's message was of simple living. I only was around him for an evening but in that evening he shared many stories of living on a sail boat, travels to Cuba, and living in such a way that thing he owned did not own him! I was saddened to find out that he passed away in his sleep only a day after I met him, which always remindeds us how life a gift that we should treasure every day. In the short time that I knew him he told me that this trail (the Appalachian trail) was his Rolex, once again meaning that the simple things in life were what he truly cherished. I am truly a better person for meeting him and hope that his family will know of the positiveness he brought to the trail.
I would like to think my Grandmother Sunday School Class at Bethlehem Baptist Church for their continued support and prayers along with everyone else who has had encouraging words and inquires about my progress! And I can't forget the care packages that are also coming my way from Kyndra and the entire Adventure Treks Family, Grandmother and the upcoming package that I am looking forward to from Nanny, and the weekly packages that Kaci so awesomely plans for, packs, and sends without fail! I am also very much looking forward to some medicated cream that I hear is a miracle drug that is being sent from Clarksville, GA with love from Jackie Durham.
I am also on my third pair of shoes after the last pair lasted me 600 miles! and with any luck a new backpack will arrive today compliments of Granite Gear Warranty department !
I guess that is all for now and next time I post maybe I will be in the 1,000 mile club!
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