Update from Bar Harbor, Maine
Aug. 4th, 2005 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nowalmartSo here I am, sitting for my assigned 15 minutes at a computer in the library in Bar Harbor, Maine. You might note that Bar Harbor is not exactly on the Appalachian Trail, and it is not Boston, either.
What a long, strange trip its been (and it has only been a couple of weeks!).
While hanging out in Monson, Maine, trying to figure out what I was going to do next, I hung out with a couple of older hikers, one of them a physician's assistant. Always good to have as a friend when you are injured and in the middle of nowhere.
They got back on the trail the day I was to head into Bangor on my way to Boston. A couple of hours before my ride was to leave, though, they returned - an incident involving a completely submerged pack (and two very wet hikers) had brought them back to Monson, and had made them to decide to give up the next week on the trail (their flights out of Boston are not until 10 August).
So they had a week to kill and they had means. They asked if I wanted to tag along. Without too mich consideration I agreed to this lunatic trip.
We have ended up, for now, in Acadia National Park. I have scrounged up some clothes (including a $2 t-shirt from K-Mart and some shorts leftover in a laundrymat).
Our plan for the next week is a little unclear, but it will end up with me being dropped back off in Monson to continue along the trail.
Anyway, more when I get a chance. I hope everyone is doing well and I will send out another update before I get back on the trail.
What a long, strange trip its been (and it has only been a couple of weeks!).
While hanging out in Monson, Maine, trying to figure out what I was going to do next, I hung out with a couple of older hikers, one of them a physician's assistant. Always good to have as a friend when you are injured and in the middle of nowhere.
They got back on the trail the day I was to head into Bangor on my way to Boston. A couple of hours before my ride was to leave, though, they returned - an incident involving a completely submerged pack (and two very wet hikers) had brought them back to Monson, and had made them to decide to give up the next week on the trail (their flights out of Boston are not until 10 August).
So they had a week to kill and they had means. They asked if I wanted to tag along. Without too mich consideration I agreed to this lunatic trip.
We have ended up, for now, in Acadia National Park. I have scrounged up some clothes (including a $2 t-shirt from K-Mart and some shorts leftover in a laundrymat).
Our plan for the next week is a little unclear, but it will end up with me being dropped back off in Monson to continue along the trail.
Anyway, more when I get a chance. I hope everyone is doing well and I will send out another update before I get back on the trail.
