Palmerton once again

I've hiked beyond Harper's Ferry, beyond the half-gallon challenge and Duncannon to Palmerton, PA, which longtime readers of this blog will know became a special place for me roughly this same time one year ago.

I'm not sure how much hiking I've got in me today as I'm feeling much under the weather, despite a zero at my girlfriend's family's house yesterday and several days off this week.

I'm still alive, still itching to keep you up to speed with my journey and still thinking of keeping hiking north. At the same time I've got a lot else going on, not least of which is preparing for grad school in the fall, at Temple University.

Nowadays I walk the Trail content knowing that I'm a thru hiker, with the whole 2,175 miles of the AT done in under a calendar year.

To be continued...

June 6: V GA->WV Day

[Bears Den Hostel, northern Virginia. An amazing place built in the 1930s. Of all the hostels on the Trail, only this one reminds me of the kind of hostels that are travelers' oases in Europe.]

Less than three months after starting in Georgia, I am within a matter of hours of hiking today from reaching Harper's Ferry, W.Va., at 19 miles from where I'm sitting right now.

Time to get another picture of me for the books at the ATC!

And I'm not stopping. I've decided to continue at least as far as Duncannon, Pa. There will be a viewing party there for the USA-England World Cup match in six days.