Leaving Gorham

As I said in the last post, Trand walked 21 miles yesterday into the White Mountains, and a car picked him up and took him back to the hostel in Gorham last night. He spent the night there again and then stayed today during the downpour. His plan is to set off tomorrow morning. The car will take him back to the place he left off Tuesday night (21 miles down the trail) and he will start there. He is hoping to get through the White Mountains then in five days because the forecast looks really good through then. He says that the weather is really unpredictable through there so he's praying that it stays good.

He sounded a bit down earlier today when I talked to him but this evening was a little better. He said he keeps getting word of people that he's met that have quit or had to leave because of injury. I asked him this evening if he was still enjoying it and glad he was doing it, and he said "yes." He got 3 packages and 5 letters at his stop in Gorham, and he said, "I never knew I was so loved." If only he had paid attention to us his whole life!! :) But it made him really happy to get those letters. He said he's not able to respond right now, but he should soon.

I won't hear from him again for maybe two weeks!! I told him I was hoping for 10-11 days, but he said not to count on it. After he hurries through the White Mountains, he'll pick up a package in Warren, NH. He's been told there is only a post office there. I'm hoping that MAYBE he'll find a phone. But he will pick up his package there, and then head to Hanover, NH before he can stop again at a hostel. That will be right on the NH/VT line. So he'll basically go all the way through NH before calling again. He should smell really great too by the time he gets there!

I'm praying for him to find some more companionship through the Whites. I hope he takes the time to enjoy himself some, but he doesn't really have the clothing to get caught in bad weather. The pull-over that I ordered him got to him, but he says it's cotton so it's not going to do any good if it rains. Oops. I ordered it off Amazon so I didn't know. His coat and pull-over that he started with (really nice ones) that he mailed back two days into the trail because he thought it was hot and he wouldn't need them JUST got here today!! I've been looking for them for weeks. But he wasn't at a post office when he mailed them. The guys at the state park just said they'd take care of it for him. They would've had no idea that we actually needed something in it to mail back!! So that kind of stinks!!

Not much else to report. I'll be sending his package out tomorrow to get to Warren by Tuesday. Praying he realizes more and more that he's so loved!!