Got up around 7AM and found the sun shining outside. It turns out the weather report was changed and no rain for today. Had a good breakfast and then left the motel and hitched a rid to Duncannon. First car picked me up - a VW Thing. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_181) Went to the post office - still no mail. Left my pack there and went to the laundromat. Called home and surprise - Rick was there. He quit his hike and is heading off for Cape Cod on his bicycle to look for a job. Glad to hear that I'm not the only one ready to quit. I'm still not sure what I will do, but I am now headed home. My pen..
[At this point my pen ran out of ink, just as I had run out of motivation to continue my hike for this year (an ironic coincident?). I was finding it very difficult to continue solo, and I was also feeling some financial pressure as my personal funds were running low. I ended up going back home, going back to my job at the Dental Lab and returning to the University of Connecticut in the spring of 1975. My hike of the trail remained unfinished over the next 7 years, but I was fortunate enough to meet a lot of AT hikers at UConn in 1975 and beyond through the Outing Club and through meeting Warren Doyle. These encounters helped keep the dream alive for me until I finally returned to the trail for a solo attempt in 1981. I am planning to continue this blog format for that hike next spring as I present excerpts from my journal entries with photos each day, this time 34 years later. Stay tuned.]
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