WELCOME to Julia & Jess's official Appalachian Trail Blog (woohoo blogging, I feel so contemporary). This will be the only log (or is blog the correct term at this point?) for a while since we haven't written up the itinerary yet, so this is just for all you people that I've already told about this so you know this is fo' rizzle;)
Jess and I are doing well. He is working at the Draft Zone, a bar/pizza place, so I'm sure you all know he's loving it. I'm working at a hoity toity french restaurant called Au Petit Paris and a bar restaurant that wishes it was as hoity toity as Au Petit called the Hanger (as in airplanes, not as in death and mayhem unfortunately). I'm also looking into getting some overnight shifts with Friends Aware, which works with mentally handicapped people. They run programs to improve basic skills (they do puzzles w/ them for reasoning skills, help them w/ job applications, etc.), but, as an overnight person, I'd probably be caring for the people who are incapable of taking care of themselves and are living at the houses. Hopefully 3 jobs will be enough to fund this little adventure of ours lol. In the meantime, Frostburg isn't the most exciting place in the world, so we just keep repeating the mantra "2 more months, 2 more months, ye gads, 2 more months".
Anywho, as soon as we plot out our itinerary we'll get it posted. Peace:)
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Best Wishes - Joe "Crazy Legs" - from Brandenburg
ReplyDeleteThursday, March 19, 2009: They are on their way! The train left Cumberland on Wed. at 10 am. We got a phone call from Jess in Atlanta about 4:45 today. Jess and Julia spent the layover in DC wandering on the national mall, saw the WW II memorial, etc. The train ride to Atlanta was crowded w/ commuters due to a train breakdown, so lots of stops, but they made it to Atlanta Thurs. am around 8:30. After picking up lunch at a grocery store they went to a nearby park to eat and fell asleep on the bench. As the two of them were repacking, a police officer approached - there'd been a report of homeless people sleeping in the park!! So Jess said, "well, yea, that's true," but that, they were waiting for a ride to the Trail :) The cop laughed, according to Jess. Their friend was picking them up at around 5pm and taking them to the connecting trail tonight. Then tomorrow they will hike to the trail head - about 9 miles - and start on the AT Saturday morning. Next news will have to come from the hikers!
ReplyDeleteMAY 3rd 2009
ReplyDeleteDear Jess, Happy 23rd birthday!!!!
POP and MM