First 100 miles done!

So we arrived in San Deigo at 11am on the 25th and called our Trail Angel Girlscout (Girlscout got HIS name because thats what he was eatting the first day of the trail). In about 20 minutes GirlScout arrived to pick us up. We hopped in his awesome Honda Element and he took us to his house. From there we meet two other hikers Ben and Whitney (both from the Northwest) who were also hitting the trail the next day. Girlscout then drove us to the store for resupply and then to the trail head the next morning.

It didn't take long for me to get my trail name. I actually got it about 3 hours after we landed in a Wal*Mart. I misprounced Laguana as La-gana and everyone hear Iguana. Girlscout said "I sense a Trail Name...." and then 3 days later we ran into someone else who stayed with Girlscout and he had told them that story. So my name became Iguana.

James, on the other hand, got burnt on the back of the neck and while calling himself a redneck in the same instance got deemed Redneck.

I just don't really know how to describe the amazing hospitality of the PCT culture. It feels like James and I have meet some long lost family members or like we're meeting a soulmate time after time. At the kick off (which is a big party for thru hikers) we meet a lot of the people we'd watched on videos and youtube clips about the trail and have found a lot of confidences in ourselves by talking to them. People are just so positive.

And everyone is just so friendly on the trial. It's like an unspoken bond you form with anyone you see out there because their going through the same thing as you are.

We've spent a little over a week (with only 2 zero days at kick off) on the trail now and have done 110 miles. Not as fast as we'd like but our miles are getting up there. Yesterday we did our first 20 mile day and the day before that we did 18! So far our feet have been doing great! After buying some sock liners at the Kick off I haven't had a single blister and I've been able to get big miles without ibuprofen, which is a great sign.

Right now we're at Warner Springs, a hot springs resort in the desert. They provide a hiker discount and so our rooms we're only $16 each! Tomorrow we head back out on the trail at 5 am and try to make another 20 mile day.

Hopefully, I'll find another computer on the trail because it's been hard to post things on this blog. I'm hoping to set up a post holer account that we can upload from the phone and then just post the link on this blog. If that works then I'll post the link on this blog.
So far we have been able to update James facebook account on the trail but blogging has been nearly impossible. If you want to see videos just add James Fackler as your friend on facebook and you'll get some cool videos of us on the trail.

Well, I think thats it for now. So as for us.....we're just walking...