Day 29: Hanover, NH. 442 miles from Katahdin, ME, 1744 from Springer Mt, GA

The best part of the Appalachian Trail is eating. I could eat in contests after only a few short weeks of training. When we get to stop at restaurants, I order entire meals as side dishes to the main meal. Is French toast a side dish for eggs Benedict? Yes.

The fall colors are spectacular and apples are ripe for the picking along the sides of the trail. 

We have gotten caught in the rain again, but always manage to find somewhere to hole up and drip dry.

We made it to Dartmouth College for  Homecoming weekend, and are being put up in style by a friend met in the Alaskan summer. 

The farmhouse we're sleeping in was built in 1792, a good reminder that the crumbling stone walls we sometimes see in the forest along the trail are pieces of someone's history.

We won't linger long-- Vermont's just down the road and I could do some damage on cheese and ice cream at their dairies.