A Quick Note

Currently I'm sitting in the Doyle Hotel and Bar in Duncannon, PA. For those of you that get the reference: it is quite a lot like sitting in the Hot-L in South Deerfield, but with a nice restaurant. The owners are super-friendly to hikers and have really bent over backwards to make us feel welcome. We can just say that the building is "historic." Yes. That sounds nice. It's historic.

Well, right now, I'm sitting in the bar and drinking a Troegs Jolly Scot. It's brewed in Harrisburg, which is not too far from here. Two days ago, we spent a couple of nights in Carlisle, PA. You might say that we are spending a lot of time in hotels at this juncture in our trip. If you are asking that, I say, "screw you." But I say it with love, of course. Well, today we walked across the halfway point in our trip, 320/640 miles to Massachusetts. We've climbed numerous mountains, we've walked through a few corn fields, we've hitch hiked on busy highways. We're tired. I'll tell you--it has been really nice to hike short, 7-mile days and stay in a four-walled structure, eat a nice meal, and drink some good beer. I think we've earned it. From this point, there aren't such amenities for more than a week, so we cannot even be tempted. Hopefully our food supply will last. That would be awesome.

I've been thinking while walking that there is SO much that we need to blog about. We have to amend the normal format of the blog to tell you about these people we've met and the places we've been. The bar has to move the computer to make room for the guitar player, but you should stay tuned for such stories as:

-The fake-haired, fake-contact, stupid (but really nice) girl
-The men and their Ham-MOCKs (they say things funny in these parts)
-TortoiseRear the smartest man in the world (renown historian, poet, scientist, philosopher, and divorcee) "Do you know the story of Homer's Aeneid?" [sic]
-Wrath, the warrior of Jupiter who roams the Earth killing the dark forces when he sees the "star."
-Enterprise Rent-a-car. They'll pick you up (if you ask nicely)
-Hiker's Welcome. But don't walk here.


Oh the things we've experienced!

: )