Friends: Posts will be coming a little slower these days.  I am blessed to have a book deal and am eager to get it written.  I will post as I can.  Hang in there – we WILL get to Katahdin. Sojo and Theo

Thu, July 7, 2016 A zero day in Cherry Valley.  Not much to report except that I had a very comfortable day in bright sunshine.  The wife went off to work in Stroudsburg and the husband at his office.  I went down to see him in the late morning or early afternoon and enjoyed the […]

Wed, July 6, 2016 By 7:30 a.m., I was back on the trail and headed north to Wind Gap.  The name meant there would be a descent into the gap.  Until then we continued on the 1000′ level ridge and arrived for an early lunch at Leroy A. Smith Shelter at 10:45 a.m.  There we […]

Tue, July 5, 2016 I woke and taped up my feet inside the tent as I would do for better than 1000 miles and I decided to take a picture of my cozy abode.  My depleted body is evident in my thin, veiny arms.  A phlebotomist’s dream! As I often did, I took photos of […]

Mon, July 4, 2016 The only place to get breakfast was 2½ long blocks up main street at the Convenient Food Mart.  I had a couple egg sandwiches, juice and coffee.  On the way back, I stopped at Dunkin Donuts to use the bathroom before going across the street to Country Harvest Family Market to […]

Sun, July 3, 2016 No bears.  Retrieved my undisturbed food from a tree at the back-right end of the camping area.  My fellow campers likely did not hang and they were fine.  At 6:09 a.m., they were still sound asleep.  As I ate and packed they made their way to their comfortable, light-weight, mesh chairs.  […]

Sat, July 2, 2016 What is it about the trail.  Most of our lives are spent in some sort of twilight between womb and tomb, between the natural and the eternal world.  In the twilight, we create vast amounts of stuff, including this writing, while in the core of our being, we long for connection […]

Fri, July 1, 2016 I was awake by 6:00 a.m. – smack in the middle of the trail.  John Paul was still asleep.  I took a photo of us thinking he was hogging (who cares?) his half out of the middle but the evidence defeats that claim. Now, let me point out here that JP […]

Thu, June 30, 2016 Return day.  I packed up as John Paul was doing the same south of Quarryville, Pennsylvania where he has lived with his family in a log cabin in the woods.  Not too shabby though, with its barn, 3-bay garage, office, swimming pool and forests for firewood.  An awesome place his dad […]

Wed, June 29, 2016 Podiatrist.  Had to see him before I left.  Feet still painful and I’d take all the help I could get.  I got a slightly different approach than Dr. K’s.  He advised that some type of liquid solution could help.  I forget what it was but I never used it.  I don’t […]