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[funplanet]

Asheville is in North Carolina...and yes, a very cool town for artists and such

[Tiger Beer]

[skookum]

[jlb]

Tiger Beer...I hiked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Mass. (1500 miles) in about 4 months last summer. I got bit by a tick and ended up in the hospital in Mass, I had planned to go to Maine, but plans changed.

Here's a review of the states I did:

GA/NC: not much worth seeing there. The Smokies were overcrowded even in March and the "trail" was more like a 2 foot deep trench.

Virginia: Beautiful, Grayson highlands were awesome. Shenandoah NP was some easy, beautiful walking, complete with plenty of restaurants and ice cream shops.

WV/Maryland: I loved it...some of my favorite parts of the trail.

PA: Nightmarishly rocky, as least for the most northern part. I hated it, most hikers do

NJ: Surprisingly nice...my favorite state I think

NY: A nightmare...maybe it was because there was a heatwave/water shortage when I was hiking through.

Conneticut: Plenty of mosquitoes but quite rugged and beautiful

MA: Just did the first part of it but I liked it a lot.

Here's my journal with a day by day blow of the trip complete with pics for any interested:

www.trailjournals.com/jackieb

The experience of a lifetime to say the least.

[Tiger Beer]

[andrew]

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[jlb]

Tiger Beer...in Response to your questions:

I wrote out my journal by hand and a kind lady who had hike the trail before that I met online offered to transcribe my journal. So I just sent off the papers to her and she put them all online for me. I mailed my camera film to my mom and she did all that for me.

Internet access was too sporadic and I had too much stuff to do in towns to worry about updating my journal too.

I stayed in hostels about once/week. Usually $15-20/night and includes a shower, laundry, bed, phone, and sometimes breakfast.

You need to carry a tent because on weekends/high summer time there's no guarantee that you will get a spot in the shelter. Sometimes the shelters are mice/tick/mosquitoe/snoring old men infested hell-holes so you want to sleep in your tent.

I made my own pepsi-can stove that runs on denatured alchohol. I got rid of it after 500 miles or so and just ate cold food. Usually on the trips to hostels about once/week or every 5 days you'd stock up on food. This required hitchhiking into town usually 1-10 miles away. Usually you could find a Wal-Mart/grocery store to buy food or in extreme cases a candy store or gas station.

Are you thinking about doing it? I hope I'm convincing you!

[mithridates]

[ryleeys]

Well, my mother grew up in West Virginia, along with several generations before her. The town of Alderson, West Virginia was founded by (and named for) some of my ancestors.

My great-grandmother lived in Charleston for 90 odd years... and it's got some nice places. Right now, my family owns land that is on the border of Maryland and West Virginia on Backbone Mountain. The driveway is in WV, the property in MD. The scenery is gorgeous any time of year. We're gonna buy the lot next to us (in WV) and build a house on the MD lot and use the WV lot as our private campground.

I biked the Greenbrier River a few years back... that's near where Congress had a famous bomb shelter.

I love West Virginia... it is downright gorgeous there. Not the grandious mountains of the Rockies, but a more peaceful feeling.

I recommend visiting Morgantown and seeing the university. I'd also recommend exploring nearby areas in Maryland and Virginia too. Actually, the interstate from Morgantown to Pittsburgh, PA is gorgeous.

There are some small towns in Northern Virginia that have a great Civil War feel to them. I'd also recommend heading east from WV along I-70 and checking out Sidling Hill.

Makes me homesick..



Anyway, how are things over here on the Korean Forum?

[peemil]

We went there last time we were in the states. Brilliant. It's quite beautiful.

[stumptown]

Where's your blog peemil?