Day in Lexington

Well its been a good week of taking it slow. Graham(who is now Troubador) is adjusting well but I've had to slow down a bit for him to adjust and find his hiking legs. We've been hiking with some cool guys from Indiana, and surprisingly, a lot of gators. We spent one night at the coolest place called Marble Spring which looked like something out of a movie. We had hiked through a lot of underbrush, then the trail just opened up to this big clearing with a few big trees. We had some bears make a lot of noise around 5am, but no trouble came to us or to our food. We're in Lexington now and its been amazing how God has timed out everything perfectly. We arrived at US. 60 at 3 today and had to wait an hour to hitchhike the 15 miles into town. Graham and I went to the Washington and Lee dining hall where we made friends with all the service people who knew we looked, and smelled, out of place. Afterwards, we went to the movies and as we left we saw fireworks. A nice couple drove us to the field where the fireworks were being shot off for Washington and Lee's graduation and it was just cool to watch them being fired off. Then Beau Craparo picked us up and we're at his house now. Getting back on the trail tomorrow morning and picking up the pace. We are trying to make it to Harpers Ferry WV by June 10th, my birthday and will have to push through Shenendoah National Park to do so. Hope everyone else is having a summer as phenomenal as I am, HULK