State Line

Working so hard all year, I have had little time to get outside on weekends. I've been finding myself having to catch up with work on weeknights and weekends since the beginning of February. Enough is a enough! The weather broke for the better this week and for a change I'm pretty well caught up at the office, so I bailed from work today and headed for the AT. These days H cannot get out there, being the beautiful seven months along that she is. Next time she puts her boots on I'll have a baby on my back instead of the pack!! Today I knocked off the State Line and finished this section of the AT, so now I have completed from the Hudson River to Mashipacong Shelter. This trip was a repeater starting at Warwick Turnpike and going until I met the place we turned back some many months ago on a day hike south from Rt. 17A. All in all today's shot was 14 miles done in 7 hours. Should not have been too rough, but I really hurt!! Have not gone to the gym since January and have been pretty much the sloth. I need to take advantage of the momentum now and exercise like silly because A & I are going to wrap up NJ and do a three-day backpack through the Kittatinnies to the Delaware Water Gap. I'm told A has been training. He's gonna smoke me!!

Streets that time walks

Thames Street and Fells Point at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Went to have some good crab dishes over at the John Stevens LTD. restaraunt nearby. Shot down and back in quick day trip moving some furniture over to A's to make some more space for Coco. Great spring-like weather made the night out near the water that much more enjoyable. Thanks again for dinner, A (and for taking all those books)!