Date: 2004-07-02
From: Parking area by the A.T., Glasgow, Va.

To: Trail head at Rt 522, Front Royal, Va.
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: clear sky

Trail head at Rt 522, Front Royal, Va.I slept good last night in the back of the truck and didn't wake up until about 7:30am. I new that I could get a good breakfast at Mom and Pops Restaurant in Glasgow, Va and I was only about 10 minutes from there, so I headed in with bacon and eggs on my mind. It was a real setback when I saw the sign that said they were closed until the first of the week...my bottom lip was sticking out further than my top lip, in my best pouty look. Well, I regrouped and remembered that I was driving my truck and not walking, so I started driving north towards Harpers Ferry, WV and found a really good place to eat in Staunton, Va by the name of Kathy's Restaurant. Their slogan was; You know it's a good place to eat, I put my name on the building. It was good. I left Staunton feeling much better about life.I got to Harpers Ferry and went to the po and picked up my bounce box and then went to the library to see if Jan Liteshoe is still editing my journal entries. She is supposed to ONLY post what I send her and not add to it. The poor pathetic girl stuck a link to her online journal on another one of my entries. She knows that I'm closing in on her journal with the number of hits on my journal. (Transciber's reminder:http://www.trailjournals.com/liteshoe/)While I was there I ran into Wanderboy who did a sobo thru hike last year. He even remembered where we ran into each other. I remembered the group he was hiking with...they all had mohawk haircuts. My hair is in a natural reverse mohawk style {no hair on top, just on the sides}. He's getting ready to go to Gorham, NH to work, so I'll probably run into him again.I went to the ATC Headquarters and talked to Lorrie Poteiger {sp?} and then ran into Skirt and Dingle Haus who I saw earlier this year when I was still walking south from last years hike. Billy The Kid came in just before I left. I had met him in the Smokies.I went to the outfitter and saw Baltimore Jack. I forgot that he said he was coming up here from Hot Springs, NC to work. I picked up a nice bumper sticker for Goosebump who I'll see in a couple of days.I was leaving to go back to Front Royal, Va to meet up with Hippie and I saw 2 hikers walking down the road that I recognized. It was Tall Tales and Crazy Legs. I gave them a ride to the ATC office and a guy flagged me down to talk. His name was John Killem and he is a friend of Hammer who I met at Trail Days. He also knows Liteshoe, poor guy. We talked a while and then I took off for Front Royal.I went to the trail head and left a note just in case Hippie and Tripod got there early and then went back into town and ate dinner. I parked at the trail head and hiked south 3 miles to Tom Floyd Wayside Shelter with my full pack intending on staying there for the night. It was almost dark when I got there and I talked to Governor and Grass Hopper who told me that Hippie wasn't planning on making it here tonight. I went over and talked to a couple of sobo section hikers, Trooper 82nd The CocaCola Kid and let them drink the beer I had packed in for Hippie and rather than sleep on the hardpan dirt that they call a tent site, I walked the 3 miles back and slept on the nice soft mattress in the back of my truck. I got back to the truck a little before 10pm and went right to sleep. Getting closer to Maine.