500 miles!!!!! We have just finished our 500th mile today. We walked off the next-to-last map of VA and are now on our last map! What a great day. We made it into Troutdale today to get our re-supply box a day ahead of plan. We are staying at the Baptist Church Hostel. Two hot showers in two days. Does life get much better than this? Yes we even had a banana split after supper:-) We sat at the shelter for a while this morning talking. We got a great compliment from a young man. He said we were the most compatible couple he has seen on the trail yet. He said most couples will snap at each other once in a while, but he never heard us say the slightest cross word the whole time
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