Thursday, March 27, 2008

Hercules and Fal.jpg


Hercules and Fal.jpg, originally uploaded by Hikingfool.

Day 23: Hiked 19.6 miles to Little Laurel Shelter. officially 291.3 mikes from Springer & 1884.9 miles to Katahdin. Planning on Cowboy camping tonight...aka sleeping under the stars.

Had some trail magic again today. Spent 1 hour & 45 mins. at Hercules & Fal's house. They fed me red beans & rice and peach cobbler ala mode. Plus root beer in a frosted mug & sweet tea! Also, they are both believers in Christ, and they shared their faith and offered books for thru-hikers about Christ. I took Mere Christianity by CS Lewis. Thanks again! Please pray for their ministry, since they are located 300 yards from the AT trail.
They had a picture at Max Patch with horizontal icycles (sp?) on the white blazed posts. It was amazing!

Tomorrow we will do another 20 plus day and Jens leaves us to go back to school. He has been with us for the past 4 days on Spring Break.

God bless,
Shepherd.

4 comments:

Daizie Girl said...

Awesome! That would be a neat place to live and what a great opportunity to minister to people! I am enjoying following you on the blog! It is neat to see where you are each day and see all the people you meet! Keep on hiking!!! God Bless!

PS said...

Shepherd,
Thought you might be interested in this: “Coup” Coupounas, the Golite dude headed out from Springer on March 13th for a 40 day, no resupply hike! He's carrying a 120 pack and wants set a new record - 620 miles w/ no resupply! He's planning on coming thru Damascus on April 13th. So keep you're eyes open and show him that pack!

peace brother,
PS

Anonymous said...

Hi from mom,
what a wonderful couple to feed the hikers going by. You have met so many wonderful people on the trail. Amee called me on the way home was harder for her to leave you this time but will see you soon. I forgot to call her on my way to work, amee matt's mri was ok and he is sending him to a pain dr. to see about pt exercises to help his back. Still in my prayers daily and be safe.
Love, Mom

Anonymous said...

Hi from Fal and Hercules,
It was our pleasure to feed Shepherd. We enjoy every day that has a guest come off the Trail!
Shepherd was traveling with a great group.
In God's Grip,
Hercules