Friday, August 6, 2010

July 22 Mile 1208

Sad news today from home. Our cat, Suki, that we have had for 14 years had an aneurism, and my Sweety had to have her put to sleep. This is the bad part about being on the trail. Things happen back home that you want to be a part of, and you are pretty much powerless to do anything. I wish very much that I could have been with my wife during this, but here we are, 1200 hiking miles away. Suki was a very sweet cat, and we will miss her terribly.
Port Clinton is not much of a place, actually. We did walk to breakfast about a mile away, then I spent the morning trying to arrange a ride to the superbig, as it turns out, Cabela outdoor store that is about 2 miles away. It's funny, but I'll hike 18 miles in the woods, but try all I can to avoid hiking miles that don't count in town. Never could find a ride, so walked up busy Hiway 61 to Hamburg. Got to the store and it is massive. Full of all these stuffed wild animals people have shot all over the world- elephants to every bear you can imagine. They even have a setting of animals from every continent. Spent a couple of hours there trying to pick out new footgear. Finally found an sandal type shoe, odd for hiking, but it was the only one where the sole didn't press on my sore spot on my right foot. We'll see how it goes. Just have 970 miles or so to go, I guess I can just keep buying shoes every 100 miles or so.
After the store got a short ride to a Shell station to get some resupply to make the 40 mile hike to Palmerton, starting tomorrow.
Asked a young kid if he could give us a ride back to our hotel, he said he wasn't going that way, but a couple in a RV said, "Hop in" and gave us a ride back. They were super nice and we were super appreciative. To have no car in America is a very weird thing.
Once home I will never take my vehicle for granted again.
Had some good news this afternoon, our supernice hiking friends Tunes and Tootsie Pops are back on the Trail!!
Tunes ankle is all healed and they are here to start back up with us in the morning. It is great to see them again!
We had dinner with them and Tootsie Pops Mom. They are such nice people!
Lots of folks have to leave the trail for a variety of reasons, you just make up the missing miles later. As I mentioned before, you have a full year to be a thru hiker. So I have til March 22, 2011. As much fun as this is, I hope not to be out here that long! It gets pretty cold up north.



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