Dutch Haus

We've been doing a lot of long days lately in our attempt to meet up with various people in the next few weeks. Our friend Laura should be visiting in a few days, and we'll see some cousins of T-Toe's and my girlfriend within the next two weeks. It's a real challenge to figure out how to meet everybody, where, and when, especially when your cell phone never works. I've been continually dive-bombed by insects that aim for my eyes, and one day I actually had to walk with an eye patch on, lead by our friend Big Fish with T-Toe helping from behind. I was fine by later that night, but I definitely have this group of ex-boyscout leaders to thank for helping me out. We received some trail magic of apples and bananas from some random guy that saw us when we crossed a road, and one day when we were camping near that Pedlar River, a day hiker stopped to drop off a car and gave us their left-over pizza. Lots of people are in line to use the Internet, so I'll make this short. Basically, we hiked without packs (slack-packed) for 9 miles and were picked up by the people that run the bed and breakfast we stayed at (the Dutch Haus). So, we are starting today from the Tye River headed for Waynesburro, and we're in Montebello right now (Virgina of course). Over 800 miles down! Sparky