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Had a good merlefest. Getting back on trail 2day.

Posted on April 28th, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: 1

Mile 624, heading to MerleFest

Hi all,
Had an interesting day today. The plan was to only do 7 miles, after doing 24 yesterday. We were going to cruise in to the legendary Wood’s Hole Hostel, which these two southbounders swore to us was re-opened. Turned out to be bad intel. Scrabble and Ember, cursed be your names! Wood’s Hole is [...]

Posted on April 23rd, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: None

Mile 536 – "For 36 hours I did not see a single person except some ponies and a skunk"

Hey all – it’s Jill, Loafy’s phoning-it-in scribe, here to tell you of recent exploits.
#1 – “I defeated him”
So apparently Loafy got into a stand-off with a skunk. Outside one of the shelters (Chatfield?), Loafy put his pack down for a sec and then returned to find a skunk starting to try to break into [...]

Posted on April 19th, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: None

Another James Bond, but for a great reason

I’m trying to coin a new trail term – a ‘James Bond’, or possibly a ‘License To Kill’, which means a double zero, or two days without hiking.
I’m still in Damascus.
Had a great time at the Barter Theater on Friday seeing Saing Joan. Here’s the elevator pitch: woman hears voices from God telling her how [...]

Posted on April 14th, 2008 under On The Trail, music, movies, books, theater. Comments: None

Lyrics by Train

Well, the obvious one is Meet Virginia, which I did this morning. Three states down, 11 to go! I rolled in to Damascus this morning – Mile 461.
Slightly lest obvious Train lyric – the best soy latte that I ever had and me… . Well, maybe it’s not the best soy latte that I’ve ever [...]

Posted on April 11th, 2008 under On The Trail, music, movies, books, theater. Comments: None

Loafy’s Birthday Barn

Thought y’all might like to see where Loafy celebrated his b-day!
Behold the Overmountain Shelter…
Some fun facts:

Wooden two-story structure – former hay barn!
Sleeps 40+!

Posted on April 5th, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: None

Loafy’s Birthday Barn

Thought y’all might like to see where Loafy celebrated his b-day!
Behold the Overmountain Shelter…
Some fun facts:

Wooden two-story structure – former hay barn!
Sleeps 40+!

Posted on April 5th, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: 1

a couple more things

I hit a few milestones since Hot Springs. Over a month on the trail. Over 300 miles.
And I would be remiss if I didn’t give another big shoutout to Elmer, Sean, and the entire Sunnybank Inn. Couldn’t think of a better place to take two zeros. Gourmet organic vegetarian meals, walls and walls of great [...]

Posted on April 1st, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: 1

Mile 339.8; Erwin, TN

Horsepower and I made it in to Erwin at 4:20 this afternoon. I know… It was a good 68 mile stretch we just completed. We took six days to do it, so lots of time for lollygagging. The weather has been sorta inbetween all week. Two days of fog and mist and mist and fog, [...]

Posted on April 1st, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: None