Ruth took us to the starting point this morning. It took her all of 5 minutes. Our walk yesterday ended 2 miles from the entrance of the park we are staying.
Within a half mile, Trip McKinnon joined us. He is quite a guy. He wants to have a big celebration when we finish our walk on Nov. 19th., a week from tomorrow. He mentioned something about a fire truck and some guys that play music. We'll see what happens.
As we walked through Hoboken, our only small town for today, we passed by the chip mill. Small pine trees are chipped upped and eventual made into paper. Then we stopped at the Shell station and started talking to "the boys". You know the boys, they are always hanging around a cafe or convenience store, shooting the breeze, drinking coffee and telling lies.
They wanted to know if we were hunters. "No, we're not hunters." "Are ye part of that crew laying the pipeline?" "No, we're not doing that, we're walking across the United States and we're almost finished". Blank stares, but that is not uncommon.
They were a good bunch of guys and we enjoyed talking to them. Inside, the young lady behind the counter asked if we were veterans, this being Veterans Day. Yes, we are. She said that drinks are on the house today for veterans. John got coffee and I had a rare Coke. Oh yes, we also had a donut.
Carol and Ruth, fresh from shopping, picked us up at the 12 mile mark. We didn't find any coins today, but found an important treasure, a Georgia license plate. The collection is complete. I now have at least one license plate from all 9 states that we have walked through. Stay tuned ...
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