Day 8

Tuesday, April 11, 1989

It's amazing the amount of people that I have met so far. Everyone is so different from each other, but all of them with something in common; the AT. There's The Traveller and Maniac who both went two miles one way last night for pizza and beer. Then they hauled it all the way back to the shelter for everyone. There's the group who has been right behind us; Tom the Oatman, Jim, Ruth the Aussie, Laurie and Buzzard Bait. One crazy group! I passed Choo-Choo on the trail who was held up because of a blister. I met a 67 and 68-year old couple yesterday who were slowly going on. There was Karl who also had about 15 pounds of camera equipment with him. And so many more. I expect that I will see more, but as I get further on, I imagine there will be fewer thru-hikers.

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Choo-Choo help up along-side of The Trail because of blisters

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7th night on the AT at Addis Gap Shelter with ET, Max, The Singing Horseman and a few others