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Monday, May 29th , 2006 Millenocket, Maine
We went to breakfast in Millenocket before going to the base of MT. Katahdin. I told the waitress why I wasn’t wearing shoes. She told me her husband had been re-activated after retiring from 20 yrs. of active duty in the airforce. He had just returned home and was done!!! She had prayed for him to come home every night and had cried many of night. She thanked me for what I was doing, Debbie from the Appalachian Grill.
 
We got to Baxter State Park at Noon. The gate person said I was too late to go up today. I’d have to wait till tomorrow. I decided to go anyway. Started up Katahdin Mt. @ 1pm on the Abol Trail. Reached the top and down the other side by 9pm (10 miles) too dark to continue.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Left for George around 5am (don’t have a watch) hiked 20 miles so I could meet Sue at Jo Mary’s junctionon Fri morning. This means 56 miles in 4 days. Finally saw a few hikers today, and a big pile of bear droppings!
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Did 19 miles today, saw a beaver and some moose droppings and hoof prints. It is beautiful with no signs of civilization most of the time.
Thursday, June 1, 2006
I think I have stumbled on a secret operation of someone raising mosquitos to take over the world! I have never seen so many for so long, walking through marshes. Saw a few red squirrels and lots of frogs. Got to my pick up point early, it rained most of the day, have some modifications to make on my rain gear.
Friday, June 2, 2006
Waited @ Jo Mary intersection for Sue to pick me up and take me back to NY, I needed to honor a commitment I made months before my trail trip. The first car or truck I heard was around 5am, I got up and sat @ the road. Stopped passer by’s (About 1 an hour) around 11am I realized something was wrong and she (Sue) must be somewhere else waiting for me. (The area we are trying to meet in is a 3.71 million acre reserve owned by 20 organizations, loggers, environmentalists) I started walking, met Evret coming from the other direction who told me I was headed the wrong way so he gave me a ride. I told him why I was walking , I got emotional, so did he. He said “I am just like you” (he is 80 yrs old) He went out of his way to help me find Sue. He said he never went to war, but he knew that if he had been and saw buddies die and other horrors of war he wouldn’t be the same. He wished me luck, handed me over to Jim who brought me to Sue. We gave one another the Polish greeting- Shoulders up hands out… Where were you? Headed back to N.Y.
I had given my word to Robin Lynn that I would see her and go to a leadership weekend @ Momentum 2 weeks before I went to Oregon to visit Willie & Neil Walsh with Conversations With God. I am going where my love is and I love what they are doing as well as what Robin is doing. Love is more than lip service, it doesn’t wait for the beloved to come to them. We didn’t make it to the ferry on time, stayed in Groton CT.
Saturday, June 3, 2006
We left first thing in the morning arrived at retreat center on Shelter Island.
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