We're 1,000 milers now...

This sounds extremely accomplished, until you consider that the AT is 2,174 miles long.

Only 1,174 miles to go.

But seriously, we walked to Maryland from GEORGIA. That's far. We also hit another milestone, when we made it into West Virginia. We had hiked a whopping 550 miles in Virginia, and, although we enjoyed the extraordinary beauty of the state, we were beginning to feel we may never get out. There's actually some trail slang referring to this - they call it the "Virginia blues". Lots of people drop out in Virginia - we're not sure how many started a thru-hike this year (usually it's a few thousand), but we were numbers 146 and 147 to reach Harper's Ferry. While in town, we visited the ATC, where they took our photo for the 2007 scrapbook and generally made enough of a fuss over us that we felt pretty darn good for a few minutes. Then we walked to Harper's Ferry National Historical Park and met M's aunt, who came over from Rockville, MD to pick us up and bring us to her house. Tomorrow M's mother will join us down here. We are looking forward to a relaxing weekend with family, and plan to head back to the trail on Sunday. Our next goal is to meet friend, Stan, by next weekend, just north of Boiling Springs, PA.

For now, we rest.