We spent this weekend with our friend from Chicago — the intrepid AT thru-hiker, Mystery Chicken (aka Rick Franklin). We picked him up off the Appalachian Trail on Friday and proceeded to have the best weekend of the summer to date. Rick and I went to listen to some bluegrass (and Rick did some banjo pickin’) on Friday. Saturday we hit some local yard sales, ate some burgers, drank lots of mojitos, and played crochet and wiffle ball by motion activated flood lights. Then on Sunday we hiked part of the trail with Rick and our friend Chris and then hich-hiked back to the car. It definitely helped us appreciate what Rick is doing. We decided that our trail names would have to be “Mouth Breather” and “Wheezy”. Rick was very kind and didn’t heckle us too much. It was very good to see a friendly face from our Chicago days. You all need to come visit.
