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Rocksylvania

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Well, there is one word to describe Pennsylvania and that is ROCKS. And our feet are feeling it! There are small round rocks to twist the ankle. There are angular, sharp rock intended to damage your feet. There are a few mid-size flat rocks that are fairly safe. Then there are the boulders. And rattle snakes like warm boulders so we chose to tackle the boulder scrambling in the morning. Sadly the only real “bad” thing about all of the rocks is that we were looking down constantly. We may have missed bear and other animals. I’m sure we missed some wildflowers. So after 2 weeks in PA we are ready for smoother trail. That said, we had a wonderful visit with Gold Star parents Joe and Sheila Baddick who were wonderful hosts. They carted us around to various stores, we went to dinner, did laundry and HOT showers! They took us to the WWII air museum where Joe volunteers and is working on an actual plane (“Spider”) which will one day fly. It was wonderful catching up with them. We are head...