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Friday October 29th We wake to pouring rain outside our Quality Inn hotel room in Harper’s Ferry on Friday. We delay leaving as long as we can and go walking out of there right at the 11 AM check out time. We are fully suited up in rain jackets and rain pants, a pack cover for Jeff and our umbrellas. It’s probably the hardest rain we’ve seen since the day we flew into Maine. We walk a short distance to the ATC headquarters to wait for the StonyBrook Farm 12 Tribes members to come get us. We feel sad thinking about Collette and Dakota out on the trail in the rain. While we wait we get our photos taken by an ATC volunteer. All the AT hikers coming through town are supposed to come here to register and get there photo taken. The photos go into a big 3 ring binder which then serves as a record of all of the hikers to have come through. We were the 152nd and 153rd South-bounders to come through town this year. I would have thought there would be more than that. We end up waiting several ho
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10/25 - 10/28 Maryland and West Virginia

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Day 107 Monday October 25th  Ensign Cowall Shelter 1125.6 - 1135.9 = 10.3  In the morning we have less than a mile to go, up a hill to Pen Mar Park, where we cross the Mason-Dixon Line and enter Maryland. We have arranged a shuttle with a local man named Dennis at 9. We arrive early at about 8:45 and he is already there waiting for us. Dennis is dropping off another hiker, named OSHA, who we recognize. He got that name because he was always telling everyone to be safe on the trail. We met him back in Maine on the day we left the Hostel of Maine and saw him once more at the laundromat in Rangeley. We had wondered if he was still out here somewhere. It’s easy to lose track of the people you meet and never see them again.  Dennis is one  cool cat. He’s an older man who has lived in the area a very long time. He entertains us with funny stories of growing up in the area, hobos sleeping in the barn on the farm her grew up on and how when he first started seeing AT hikers he thought they we
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