July 15.  It was a hot night…and something kept running around my tent all night.  I think it may have been a frog or a mouse, either way it kept me up too long.  Finally after midnight I could feel a cool breeze drafting through my tent.  Yesterday had been […]

July 14.  I went to bed stuffed with a stomach ache from the fish fry and drinks.  At 3 AM I got up to use the restroom and realized I was starving again.  I think the mountains of Southern Maine are finally giving me the hiker hunger.  We slept in […]

July 13.  Happy Trail Friday!  We were going to town!  It is a lot easier waking up and going to town rather than leaving town.  We started moving around 5:30 and hit the trail.  First though I visited the privy and stopped by the spring for more great water.  Our […]

July 12.  Another lazy morning…which seems to happen in towns and hotels.  We finally decided to get up and start moving around 8:30.  It is harder and harder to get motivated to get back on the trail, but we figured breakfast at the local diner would help.  Waking up on […]

July 11.  Woke up in our stealth camp around 7…I woke up earlier but I really didn’t want to move.  I had slept for 10 hours but I felt like I needed to sleep more.  Sometimes in the middle of the night I wake up with a sharp pain in […]

July 10.  The plan was to wake up early and get into Andover by 8:30 when the post office opened…but after the 26 mile, 15 hour hike yesterday it was much easier to sleep in!  Last night when I crawled in my tent I heard something moving around outside, but […]

July 9.  Woke up early in my tent…not because I wanted to, but because someone’s phone alarm clock was going off.  Another hiker rolled in late, after dark, not a problem.  He also had a dog with him and as the hiker headed down to get water he left his […]

July 8.  Four months ago today I started hiking the Appalachian Trail at Springer Mountain, Georgia.  Today I woke up in New Hampshire, 15 miles from Maine, and 298 miles from the end.  I woke up for the second morning in a row in the same hotel bed…I was getting […]

July 6.  We had stealth camped near a visitors center and lodge so I wanted to be up early and on the move.  Besides, today was a Trail Friday and Rafiki and I planned to get into Gorham in the afternoon!  I woke up around 5 AM and started packing […]