Day 31

Set off this morning in sunshine! It was a but chilly but the sun was shining. I was in a great mood after a good days rest yesterday. Shortly after getting started I entered the very large town of Toll Gate, WV. Shortly after that I left the very large town of Toll Gate, WV.

I went through a few more tunnels which I love about this trail. I then went through the town of Pennsboro. I didn’t realize until then that I’d been walking across the old B&O railroad. I recognize it from Monopoly haha. It’s really neat to walk along this trail. It feels like I traveled back in time.

I got to another tunnel and this one was so wet that I had to try some crazy ninja moves to try to stay dry. Well I’m a pretty crappy ninja do my feet got soaked. I had to stop and change my shoes and socks. The water was freezing!

I kept walking and was feeling good with my dry feet. I came upon a spot in the trail that had been washed away and was too big of a hole to get Jenny across. There was a pipe laying across it that was easy to cross on foot but not necessarily made for getting baby strollers across it…

I weighed out my options: stand there and cry until someone came and helped, take Jenny apart and throw her over the gap piece by piece, or just get ballsy and try ninja moves again. They worked this time. I made it across and filmed it just in case I fell. I figured I’d go viral if I had a wipeout.

The trail was beautiful after that! It was secluded and followed a stream. There was one spot with high rocks on both sides of the trail and I felt like I was in the wild west going through something that should be named “sidewinder gulch” or something like that.

Then I came to a tunnel that had been carved through solid rock to make. I yelled, “yabba dabba doo” as I walked through because it reminded me of the Flintstones. I then had the Flintstones song stuck in my head for hours as a result.

I got to North Bend State Park and figured I’d set up camp there. I have to pay a small amount but they have a bathroom with showers and a firepit. I figured I’d make it easier on me and Domino since it’s going to drop into the 30s tonight.

I get there and the couple who run the campgrounds were very nice. I headed up to the lodge where they have a restaurant for dinner and the waitstaff heard about my walk and took care of my meal and fed domino some steak!!

A lady from the Pennsboro News is going to meet up with me at the campsite and we’re going to do an interview to help get the word out there about overdose deaths.

Great day. I have no internet down at the campsite so this will be goodbye for the night. I will take pictures and post them tomorrow.

Thanks for reading!