a couple of hills

Today Betsy, Bonnie and I moved out of Betsy's suburban neighborhood and went to Jim Thorpe to walk. The JT Volkssport walk is being discontinued after Sept. 30. And we needed Carbon county for our AVA Pennsylvania counties book.

I figured it would take an hour to get there. Except I figured from my house, not Betsy's. We arrived in JT about 1/2 hour before the train station opened. So we walked the D&L for 3 miles, then returned to the station.

After locating the box, we got all signed in, grabbed the instructions, and left. Quickly we realized the instructions were not the same. Some one had mixed up the pages in the folders. The trail we grabbed was for the D&L was 5-10-15K. We wanted the town+ one. A 6 or 10K.

After retrieving the correct directions, we were off, again. First stop, the Packer Mansions. Then up and up and up, and up some more, on Broadway. Final we turned and went up thru the woods and came out in a different section of town. And we went up more. We were all wondering when down would happen. I think it barely the last mile.

We walked about 2.5 hours and went 8 miles.

When we were in a neighborhood, Bonnie talked to a man. He asked why we were in the cemetery. She told him it was part of a route we were following. In our naivete we thought maybe they sent us there to find Jim.  But he wasn't there. The man gave Bonnie directions.

So heading out of town, we went the other way, and found Jim. Said hi, and came home.