Date: 2005-05-09
From: Trail dayZ!!!!!!!

To: Trail DayZZZZ
Miles today: 0.0

Greets to all and anybody!! Touk (my sweet time to write) here!!!!Sitting again at the wonderful ever buzzing Baja Cafe back here for trail days. Lulu and I succeeded in breaking free from this place finely a week ago and it was a proccess... let me tell you! This trail town has an amazing fly paper effect on hikers by swallowing them up hook, line and sinker usung extremely creative methods//.. luring them by extreme friendliness, huge burrito's... and a salsa bar... wow.. did it ever work in my case.. I really just wanted to just set up my tent by the salsa bar I've been on a salsa kick for the last two hundred miles of ramen and lipton pasta sides!!!! And then when everyone is about a hundred miles ahead and free from the trap..they throw a ten day bash with everything an outdoor enthuseist could ever dream about and ... make the thru hikers the theme... Provide shuttles..Bring in the gear reps.. Free gatorade.. Oh yeah..and if your still bored.. a water gun fight US against the TOWN (water guns provided to girls with dashing sunburned smiles like us). Please tell me...How can we resist this place>?????????? Will the gypsy's ever leave S/W VA????? only one way to find out folkes -Stay tuned :0)We determined that it boiled down to a simple "people here just don't want us cool people discovering the full wealth of beauty on the trail for ourslves".. "They might be AT greedy"... (Just kidding). (-but seriously).I have been greeting hte warm weather with open sunburned arms!!!! It hit like a brick. I was very used to shivering myself into hiking mode each morning feeling like I shrank two inches during the night... for the last week we have been cowboy camping and our sweatshirts have been pillows.. not apparel.It was an easy 80 degrees the last two days hiking from the Graceland highlands to Atkins. I have acquired a mountain kilt and have thouroughly enjoyed the creative comfort.. It kides dirt well..has great pockets and ventilation. Lulu has been wearing a Macabi hiking skirt and has greatly enjoyed it.. a huge number of the guys out here are now wearing kilts or serongs or the Mountain Hardwear kilts.. I have several pictures of Silent Bob, the Good Padre, Troll, Oblivious, Stilts, Snowman, and Hareball all wearing kilts and I.. the one girl.. in the minority, also wearing a skirt.It has been wonderful for the hot weather.. my next quest is for a sleeveless top and that will happen here at trail days somehow.. Umm..to diagress for a moment.. (tee hee hee) being able to pee standing up has been wonderful..not having to find a bush to squat behind has made the skirt a wholesome purchase... what a handy art! alright alright... that IS however a trailworthy subject...howver crude it comes off to you folks in the "real world".I have just been notified that the fifteen minutes was up four minutes ago... Its all good.. Bruce Spruce and Domino give a big shout out to whoever is reading my journal and wishes everyone to go to theirs because...apparently they are more cool.... hmm... We are WEll!!! Love to all I will update later as we plan to be here forever!!! till then and beyond I am the gypsy sister .. Touk (a tongue lashing for being on here forever)! GA-ME 2005