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From Greens to Whites!!! – 2189milesforjulie
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From Greens to Whites! Hello from New Hampshire! We have completed our traverse of Vermont and it’s beautiful Green Mountains and are now in New Hampshire and will be in the White Mountains in the next week or two! Vermont was beautiful, clean, and we met some truly kind and wonderful people. We have made some new friends out here – Eric and Heidi from Washington, Miami Vice, Green Bay, Arrow, and Uhaul. We can all learn from their example! Please help us to help them! We had to wait out a rainstorm!
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Unfinished Business! – 2189milesforjulie
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We are back in Maine! It has been a while since my last blog post and a lot has happened since then! We are ready to complete these 211 miles and get back on the trail in New Jersey to finish hiking south to Georgia! We have learned much in the first 600 miles – about hiking, about the kindness of strangers, and about ourselves – and have been blessed to have the love and support of our wonderful family and friends! Thank you again everyone! Now, how about some photos? We crossed Mt. Washington! Thank yo...
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Climb your mountain! – 2189milesforjulie
https://2189milesforjulie.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/climb-your-mountain
How many of you have faced literal or figurative mountains in your life? I had climbed worse before, I had climbed higher before, even if it had been the biggest climb yet that would have been an opportunity to improve on my best. Please reach out to these families, understand their needs, help them to reach that summit! Join Julie’s Army of Hope! Since the last blog post we have experienced some of the most beautiful scenery of the hike so far! For tonight I need to make sure and thank all of you for jo...
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Knit Together: How is Luisa?
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Friday, July 24, 2015. I brace myself for the question, a literal bracing or stiffening in my body, "How is Luisa? How touched I am that people ask. How sad, upsetting it would be if they didn't. And yet, it's the hardest question to answer. Do I stay positive, sharing the answers to prayers, the walking, the increased stability? How she can now stand up in the middle of the room, bend over and pick up her duck? An answered prayer is that we acquired her augmentative device Wednesday of last week! She le...
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Hello from Maine! – 2189milesforjulie
https://2189milesforjulie.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/hello-from-maine
Southern Maine is not an easy hike. The mountains are smaller than the Whites but they are rocky and challenging! Somewhere in the hike on this day Bennett developed knee pain. We don’t know how or why it started hurting but it slowed him down and really bothered him. Then my filter broke. We pushed on through the next day using Bennett’s filter and completed the toughest mile on the trail – Mahoosic Notch! This is a mile long stretch of huge jumbled boulders that you have to climb over and under! I hope...
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Next stop – Vermont! – 2189milesforjulie
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Next stop – Vermont! Hello from Bascom Lodge atop Mt. Greylock, the highest point in the state of Massachusetts! Today is our last day in Massachusetts and we should enter Vermont later today! The mountains keep getting bigger from here! The past six days have been eventful and we included our highest mile days! We have been lucky so far about rain but three days ago the day started with rain and ended with a summer thunderstorm! Thankfully the tent performed well and kept the rain out! We passed the sit...
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Flip! Flop! Flip! – 2189milesforjulie
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It is time to flip! We started on Katahdin on June 30 planning on heading south to Georgia but the trail had other plans for us. We flipped south to the New Jersey / New York line and hiked north, heading back to Maine. Two days ago we finished the northern 835 miles of trail and now we get to flip back south again! Tomorrow we start back at the New Jersey / New York line and head south again! From left to right are Tonreg, Low Profile, Stretch, Jolly (Bennett), and me. I am so excited for them! Sometime...
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It is Rett Syndrome Awareness Month!!! – 2189milesforjulie
https://2189milesforjulie.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/it-is-rett-syndrome-awareness-month
It is Rett Syndrome Awareness Month! October is Rett Syndrome Awareness Month! Please show your support for all those Rett families and wear purple this month! The flowers here in Pennsylvania along the Appalachian Trail are even showing their support! Please join Julie’s Army of Hope and help Julie Grace and all her Rett sisters fight for a cure! Go to http:/ www.juliesarmyofhope.org. Http:/ www.girlpower2cure.org. Or / www.sukifoundation.org to find out how you can help! What a two weeks it has been!
