Our original plan was to ride the bikes provided at Father Tom’s campsite to the Dunkin Donuts a mile away.  The plan changed a bit when we didn’t sleep well due to the heat and ended up waking up later than expected.  Oh well, better to eat the food we have with us. We enjoyed chatting with Skip and a couple of NOBOs during our morning instant coffee and our first time making cereal with powered milk. It was definitely an interesting change to our boring peanut butter or oatmeal breakfast.

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Eric and Hayley grew up less than 20 minutes apart in small towns on the North Shore of Massachusetts. It took 27 years for them to meet each other and have been together for the past 8 years. We’re hiking the Appalachian Trail Southbound in 2022. Eric hiked the AT northbound in 2011 and was known as “Mountain Dew”. Hayley has always enjoyed the outdoors and got into backpacking soon after meeting Eric. We are excited to start this adventure on June 27th.