Date: 2004-09-01
From: Hanover NH

To: Glencliff
Miles today: 0.0

8/31/2004Slimer:Wake up early, eat and pack up. I always use the sound of birds chirping in the morning as my alarm clock. Very beautiful through here. Haven¢t seen any more moose, but have seen plenty of moose poop. Hundreds of chipmunks it seems. They will come right up to you. They are not afraid. Made it into Glencliff around 10:45 am. Go to P.O., It¢s closed !! Sign on the door says ¢Closed from 10:00am until 2:00 pm for lunch¢!! I could handle a job like that. It¢s a very small Post Office. In fact Glencliff is just a crossroads about like Silver Valley.What to do now? I wanted my shoes, but now I¢ll have to wait. Another day shot! There is a hostel here, but no stores. Nearest town is about 5 miles away. I understand the hostel has a shuttle that runs twice a day to town so hikers can eat and re-supply.I go call home, no one home. Call dad at work. He tells my shoes are at the post office for sure. He called and had the lady there verify that they were there. He also tells me he packed the last issue of the ¢Denton Orator¢, August 25th issue in the box with my shoes. He tells me to be sure and read the commentary article by ¢Toni Ayers¢ inside the front page. We talk a while, he reads off the guest book entries to me.I tell dad I have to go. I haven¢t had a shower in two weeks. There was no place in Hanover to take a shower and I¢m ripe. It¢s bad when you can¢t stand yourself.I go to the hostel and shower. Feels so good to be clean. Not much of a hostel, but better than nothing.Wipe-out, Carp and a few others are here. Paparazzi comes in. We all re-supply and talk about the White Mountains. You can see Mt. Moosilauke from here, big and rugged looking. I keep thinking about what Baltimore Jack said, ¢Just wait boys, Mt. Moosilauke is going to get your undivided attention¢ The White¢s are on all our minds tonight, you can feel it.Get my shoes at the P.O., just what I wanted, Thanks mom and dad. Go back to the hostel and settle down. Read the ¢Denton Orator¢. This is the first time I have seen the real ¢Denton Orator¢ while on the trail. Dad has faxed us text from the on-line version. Man this is something else! Man what a nice write up about Gather and me.Gather and I had asked dad to mail Rob Bird the ¢Denton Orator¢ each week, Rob Bird was so nice to us. ¢THANKS AGAIN MR. ROB BIRD!!¢. Dad said he was mailing one each week to Rob Bird for us.I also read the commentary article Toni Ayers wrote about Vince Lombardi and Tony Stewart. And right below it she talks about us. Makes me ashamed of myself when I think about all the times I felt like giving up.I will keep this commentary article with me all the way to Katahdin! The next time I get down, I¢ll pull it out and read it.Thank you Toni Ayers, all the Orator staff, and all the folks around Denton and elsewhere that¢s behind Gather and I. I never dreamed we had that much support, and so many people pulling for us back home.The link to the ¢Denton Orator Newspaper¢ is below if anyone wants to take a peek at it, Toni does such a good job with it.http://www.dentonorator.comhttp://www.dentonorator.com/_wsn/page8.html - direct link to the article, the page number may vary from week to week, you can always get to it by going to http://www.dentonorator.com , most off the time it¢s on the ¢Out & About¢ or the ¢Leisure¢ section.I have my own journal here, the link is, www.trailjournals.com/Slimer , mom and dad posts to this one so everyone can keep up to date with us. They only post the written pages from the journal I keep when I mail it in, to my journal.Hanover NH to Glencliff NH ¢ 43.4 miles put awayTotal miles hiked to date ¢ 1,775.6Miles to Katahdin ¢ 398.5Yahooooooooooooo!!!