Date: 2014-05-21
From: Crampton Gap Shelter

To: PA 16 Blue Ridge Summit
Miles today: 33.1
Weather: broken clouds

Day 70: Wednesday, 21 May 2014 Crampton Gap Shelter (1027.7 miles) to Waynesboro, PA (PA 16 Blue Ridge Summit 1060.8 miles)Where are you Buffalo?¢So, we crossed over the Mason-Dixon line into Pennsylvania. We¢re in Waynesboro, PA, sitting in front of the Food Lion, eating and charging our phones. A guy came along and asked if we were down on our luck and gave us $5.00! Thank you, sir!¢[Waynesboro is west of the trail on PA 16, just over the MD-PA border.]I sent your next box but forgot to include the Gatorade.¢That¢s OK. I haven¢t been drinking it as much. The last time I used my Gatorade was for the coconut cream on the key lime pie! It was the lemon-lime flavor and was really good!¢[Buffalo has a vegan pie cookbook. Coconut cream replaces the dairy whipped cream and is really, really good! Refrigerate the can of coconut milk for several hours or overnight, then skim off the cream on top to whip with raw cane sugar or confectioner¢s sugar.]¢The core group right now is me, Violet, Gentle Spirit, and West. The 3 others are Moose, Flipper, and Bright Side. Moose and Flipper aqua-blazed in the Shenandoah.¢   [Aqua-blazing is using a human-powered vessel, like a canoe or kayak, and generally following the trail but on a waterway. Buffalo and I had talked about maybe doing that, had I stayed on the trail.]¢While hiking up in the hills, we saw an elementary class out backpacking! It was awesome to see these little kids out hiking, and they were little!Maryland was more rocky than I would have thought. Good thing I didn¢t do the 4-State Challenge. [Hiking from Virginia, through West Virginia, Maryland, and into Pennsylvania in one day, about 50 miles.] It would have killed me!At one point, we hiked through a residential area. There was a woman working in her garden. When she saw us, she invited us to come in her yard, sit on her porch, and she gave us some juice! That was really nice!¢So, you¢re eating OK?¢Oh, we¢re doing some great cooking and meals with ¢Team Vegan¢! We just had a giant lunch; now we can go buy food for the trail!¢ [I guess if they try to buy all that food at once, on a hiker¢s empty stomach, and continually burning metabolism, they may not be able to carry it out of the store!][They¢re only about 30 miles from the halfway point, inching their way up the map!]Oh, do you recall a Judith, whom you met just before Harper's Ferry? She signed your Guest Book, and signed it Johnny-on-the-Spot. "Violet, do you recall Judith, someone named Johnny-on-the-Spot, just before Harper's Ferry?" So, I read the Guest Book entry, and she signed 'Love and Peace' Johnny-on-the-Spot. "Oh, Love and Peace, yeah, that's the husband and wife we met, and Johnny-on-the-Spot is their friend." I thought Love and Peace was the salutation![We heard from On Point on the PCT. He made it to Wrightwood, Mile 364.5. The son, of friends from church, is doing a cross-country bike trip ¢ Washington to Washington! He started in DC and is crossing Pennsylvania! I think he¢s further west then where Buffalo is, but it would have been way cool if they ¢ran into¢ each other! His mom called him Guy-on-a-Bicycle last year when he rode from Seattle to Tijuana as Guy on a Buffalo hiked the PCT!   So many awesome adventures!] Thanks for bearing with Buffalo's Transcriber - The Mum