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JoeinKY

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We have had our tear-drop for since 4/12. We picked it up in Necedah so we camped in it the first night we had it. Stopped at High Cliff St Pk on Lake Winabego WI. Just got back from Delaware Water Gap PA, picked up my wife Jeannine and Peggy after a month on the Appalachian Trail. They hike, I am support crew. So far 38 nights 9500 miles. Until we got our teardrop we had been tent campers and put up with leaks, puddles and wet gear to dry out when we got home. We call her Always Pleasant because no matter the weather it's always pleasant inside.
 
Jeannine is your wife n'est pas...who's Peggy, Alan wants to know!!! We're wondering...IS THAT why it's always pleasant inside!!! Hey...you set yourself up for that one "Kentucky Boy"!!!
Welcome to the madness!
 
Jeannine is my wife as you gathered, Peggy is her hiking buddy.
Peggy's husband Larry had to work so I picked them up by myself. Will be dropping them off at DWG in May '14 for next section, another 300 or so miles to Mass./Vermont state line. Peggy actually did name "Always Pleasant". Jeannine, Peggy, Larry and myself were camping in Virginia just before the girls started a trail section, it was raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock. Peggy and Larry were not really too thrilled about a night in a tent,Peggy remarked it's always pleasant in the camper.
 
And that's how CIs get their names. You guys sound like lots of fun. Good to have you on the forum. Please feel free to regale us with your tales of adventure. From the "cow peeing on a flat rock" stuff, your stories ought to be doozies. Can't wait to read them.

Camp On,

Sue
 
Coming from what I have deemed "The Wet", I like your expression! We have a couple dozen different ways of classifying the water falling from the heavens out in these parts, but I have never heard "a cow peeing on a flat rock". I love it! Can't wait to hear more from you.

Welcome to the forum!
 
I'm guessing Peggy's "real" name is Mary Margaret?? Thanks for updating us in such a timely matter...inquiring minds now at rest!!
Stay dry.
 
Yep, Peggy's real name is Margaret, never had the courage to call her that though. Jeannine and Peggy have been hiking together for several years now in various parts of the country. Larry and I hiked with them one time on part of the Appalachian Trail in the Grayson Highlands Virginia, we both got our fill of hiking then. Any time they bring up us going with them all I have to say is " remember that death march in VA?", ends the conversation right there. Everyone who hikes the AT has a trail name, mine is Rather Be Drinking.
 
Replying to myself here but the Grayson highlands trip was a momumental experience for all of us, we were camped right next to the first teardrop camper any of us had ever seen,it was a 550. We had one about six months later.
 
I got an idea....place the cooler farther away from camp and just let those girls "hike back and forth" to it for you!
 
Alan, that is the best idea I have heard in a while. I had suggested a cooler with backpack straps and I would walk along behind them and lighten the load 12oz. at a time but I was the only who saw any merit in the idea.
 
Grayson Highlands is just up the road from me. We live in the very corner of NC but we can see Virginia and Tennessee from our porch. Y'all come see us now, hear?
 
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