Date: 2014-07-30
From:  Chet's place Lincoln nh

To: eliza brook shelter
Miles today: 8.8
Weather: scattered clouds

Day 37*if you want to see pictures I post of the trail go to Instagram and search up seniornoodle. I have trouble uploading to this website but I post plenty of things there while you guys wait for me to get to the nearest town and update againThanks for all of the messages on why you read this. It makes me happy to know that they just don't float around like ashes in space and some people actually like it soooooooWhy not provide backstory,Because what is Spider-man without 18 years of lame peter Parker! We have gotten this far and many of yull don't know what's up so why not fill you in. Originally I wanted to do the trail with a friend. It was never the intention to do it alone but then he couldn't (for a terribly lame reason) and I didn't want to wait a year till it would work for him so here I am. I have wanted to do this since freshman 2 year of college (I spent 1 year at WCU and 4 at uncw freshman 2 refers to my first year at uncw). It happened cus I was bored, remembered it from Boy Scouts and put it on the list of things I would eventually do (I think that bucket list movie had came out recently). The only other thing I can remember on the list was run a marathon and I did that twice. Most of the information I used to plan my trip I gathered from trail journals and I only fully read one trail journal and that was crunchmasters 2013 sobo. Besides that I read appalachian trials, a walk in the woods, wild, and AWOL on the appalachian trail. I went sobo because it worked out with my graduation from uncw and after hearing about the horrors of packed shelters for nobos I am glad I did it. I told my parents I was doing the trail in January this year and they were pretty supportive, what they forgot was the previous time I had mentioned doing it 3 years earlier. I have a sister who makes the Nutella fluff and peanut butter mix, girlfriend who sent me a frisbee and some clothes and mother all supporting me and physically sending me things I need occasionally. Lastly when I get off the trail I plan on finding a job teaching high school history because 1. That's what my degree is in2. I thought it was dumb to just to straight into teaching because all of my favorite teachers had a less traditional path into teaching3. Singing don't pay the bills (sister act 2)And now that we are all caught upToday was easy, the easiest day we have had out of town yet. Why you ask? Because we set our goals low and we were able to accomplish them. A 9ish mile day was planned to the closest shelter that was free and we made it there at 730 despite the fact we got on the trial at 1230. So let that be a lesson, you want to not feel lame after hitting town, make an easy goal or you shall be disappointed.Hitchhiking sucked today. We stood for about 40 mins to get picked up and the people that did were two 17 year old girls out just driving during a family vacation and wasting gas. Yes I am glad they picked us up and I am not going to complain about a good thing. I just feel kinda scummy hit hiking but we got on the trail and they were super nice so I let the sign the disc under the pseudonyms of c dwag and mj23 because everyone should use a stupid name occasionally. Trail luck! Over these past few days I have decided I needed two things, new water shoes and insoles. At Chet's I found a good pair of insoles which I will try to use in my boots. And today I found a pair of teva sandals on the ground on the trail (spread out 15 mins apart). Yes it's technically stealing maybe, but if someone says they are theirs I will give them back, if they give me a pasta side for walking 15 mins to get the other one. Anyways Luck had been on my side and it couldn't have came at a better time.Last day of the whites tomorrow, swag swag swag swag.