Hey there readers! I am now officially done with Pennsylvania! 230 miles done in 11 days. I did a 32 mile day (my biggest ever) on friday and made it to the border. I hiked that day from 7am to 10:15pm and then took a day off yesterday where it was founder's day here in Delaware Water Gap PA. They had a classic car show and steam engines and a rubber duck race in the river where it was hikers vs little kids. It's already been such an amazing trip and I keep running into cool small town events like these. I didnt see my PA porcupine unfortunately but I have seen lots of other cool wildlife. So far my count for the whole trail is 16 bears, 3 rattlesnakes, 1 wild hog, about 20 feral ponies, 1 grey fox, 1 weasel, lots of groundhogs, turtles, other snakes,rabbits and too many deer to count. Also tons of birds, hawks and falcons. But I still have 800+ miles to see a porcupine and further up, a moose. A lot of people ask if I can still finish in time for school to start seeing as I still have 800+ miles. The answer is Yes! I feel like a machine right now easily knocking out 20+ mile days. If I can keep up my current pace and get past Hanover New Hamshire by the end of July (400 miles from here) than I should be able to finish by the time the fall semester starts back up. It's not going to be necessarily easy as hiking is a lot of hard work and hiking 20 miles a day means a lot of long days. But, my muscles have grown significantly in my legs, I have slimmed down from what I see about 30 lbs, so Im pretty lean now, and I have figured out how to hike big miles with a light amount of food so that my bag is just a little bit lighter. I dont know when the next time Ill be able to update this will be, but I should finish up with New Jersey(75) miles in a few days and will be well into New York by the end of the week. Hope everyone reading this and all of my friends and family are doing well,
signing off and walking on, HULK