[at-l] ten, X, diec (how do you write it in spanish?)

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spurred on by kelly, i will tiredly makeup and letterworderize the next 
things (stuff).

two things first if i may, before picking up, scooping out, helping 
transport, two hikers?

--------- the place that helped a unprepared hikerguy with water and 
directions is the Horton Center, a Christian camp.  thank you!  and no i do not mind 
staying outside while the girls are eating dinner...

------ my spelling.   i aint usink spell check, and i am writing without 
preparation (a la kerouac), but when i see that i wrote "through" instead of 
"threw" (for just one example) i'm embarrassed. i just wanted to say that i am a 
good speller, and DO know a word or two and how it's used.

-they said they'd been there a long time. 
-that they saw i was from outta state, which usually    means no ride.
-that i was from THEIR state so they hoped i would. they live in allentown, 
an hour from me.
-they met on the PCT. this came up when i mentioned i follow journals of Yogi 
and Belcher on the pac. crest
-they got married and have taken road and hiking trips
-they had just hiked mt washington and were amazed by a cog RR letting so 
many people out. they could barely get to the summit for a picture.
-they are Red Man and Tumbleweed.
-i told them of our trip, by then abour 2000. miles. i told them of my modest 
accomplishment of tuckerman 
-i got my picture took with them when we dropped them off in gorham
-they and we were equally thrilled with the meeting!
i was so excited and glad to be able to help. the place they read about in 
the AT Companion had no vacancies, but gave them the name of another Gorhamian 
place and that worked out.

gorham, like lincoln, is surrounded by high mountians, in G's case the 
Presidentials. what a back drop. 

and YES i got my lobster roll sandwich (4.99) and it was good. also, i ate 
blueberries right off a bush (very unjerrylike) in Grafton Notch.

we left the time share early sunday morning, 8/3/03 EDT. we drove through 
maine on small roads, getting lost a few times.  our goal was Pemaquid Point 
Lighthouse.  we took rt 1 (maine to florida) past blueberry-selling-stands and got 
there.  amazing rockiness, stripes of gray and white, hard to walk on. the 
ocean shooting up into the air as we and others sat on giant rocks and cliffs 
watching the scene.

then US 1 south to freeport, and the Desert of Maine. could anything BE more 
opposite than the rocky coast than this?  sand of all different shades, 
occassional trees and dunes, an area with lichens and mosses, much like the kind i 
enjoyed so much on the hikes i took. 

hungrily (us), foggily (the landscape) we ate dinner at ogonquit, and drove & 
drove, stopping once for a 1 hour nap at a service area.  again the NYC area 
sucked us in like a black hole.  mindy was lost in the Bronx (and thus i too 
was) until we saw a sign for the 3rd st bridge into manhattan. i led mindy 
through (or is it threw) the 4am City, the skyscapers visible, to the holland 
tunnel and the NJ turnpike took us home...

i hope some of you enjoyed reading this. i enjoyed telling you about these 
things i was part of.

jerry 
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