The Eastern Continental Memorial Hike

“Very true rad, heck, get the patch, have Nicotrol be a sponsor, and make your quitting smoking one of the focal points of the trip!”

“rad we are desperatly trying to quit now. if nothing else this hike WILL be good for me and Bill. I promise all of you right here and now that we will make this hike work for us too. no more smoking, its a done deal!!!patches are on and were doing good!Buddah, we have contacted them Phillip Morris and they turned us down even for plane ol mac and cheese. oh well. we really do need packing supplies, that would be a great help thank you!!! Ill email you right away. and Ill get you on our sponsor page to.Walkincrow, Im trying !!! we really want to do this trip as cheep as possible so we have money left over to donate too, if we get homes to sleep in and showers at someones house we'll have money left of our own to donate too. gotta try everything we can think of.And if anyone wants to send things to us in the mail our Itinerary with post office zip codes is on our web site at www.tecmh.freeservers.com .we'll eat just about anything anyone wants to send.you can also send letters there to.Thanks everyone!”

“great, MOM!

i think that quitting will have a great impact on you and bill (once you get over those first few months of withdrawel!)

i hope you can stick it out!”

“I think all the public exsposure will help us stick to it. we really do need to quit and its been a thing for a long time with us that we were going to but this just gave us a really good excuse(as if we needed one) I never thought about getting a patch as a sponsor????!! but its an idea.”

“Phillip Morris, what a bunch of !$%&s!”

“A belated thanks for your responses and clarifications Mom. I will be making a pledge.”

“Got the pledge form to mail in at pledge form”

“Well I did put a link to your site on ours Zoe's Mountain Sports
So I hope that helps.
As I told Bonita I am leaving this week but when return will have press in the Gap to tell our locals about you since you are locals to us. Great if you could all be there for pics and stuff more later on that.
Please send us flyers so we can have them in the store. I tell everyone I see about this and some are contacting Bonita at her job. They live in her area.
Hope that helps I think we can provide some gear just give me a call. I emailed you my phone numbers tonite.
Barbara”

“Yo MOM. This report appeared in a local paper about a few kids who are doing the Eastern Continental hike (with sponsors) for OxFam). They are in Connecticut . . .about half way through. Doesn't soudn like they are on trails though.

cut and paste:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2234259&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id=10856&rfi=6”

“I met those kids in Damascus there a nice bunch. Our hike is going along very nice now with a lot more sponsors .(just about all new gear) we have been able to save some money now that our daughter is renting our house and things are looking a lot better. Bill and I set up at the fair last week and took about 30 pledges for the American Cancer Society. I think this is going to raise them lots of money. we have been approched to do a TV deal called Radical Sabaticals airing this next year but nothing final yet. it is the same people that own Home and Garden TV and Food Cities Network so we will see what happends.Bill and I have been working out a lot lattly trying to get ready to leave. We will be on TV monday night on Live at 5 on chanell 10. we have made the front page of three newspapers now with full page articles. its been fun so far but were very busy here.Smoking getting under control here, so far so good”

“yo MOM, where abouts in Virginia do you reckon you'll be the first week in March? maybe i (we) could join you folks for a stretch.”

“YAHOOOO!!!!!!!
Kick Butt MOM & Bill!!!!!”

“I got out the itinerary and March 6 is schedualed to be in Damascus. Now keep in mind we have a lot of hiking to do before we ever get there so things may end up changing a day or two. keep a watch on our web site and we will have our journal on there so everyone will know excatly where we are all the time. also,I want to let everyone know that things are going very well, were pretty much ready except for shoes right now.were going to start out with New Balance walking shoes in Florida then change into boots latter in the year when it starts to cool down. were right now packing mail drops and getting very excited . so far we have been on the entire front pages of 4 newspapers. 2 inside stories, and 2 times on TV. we also have a man talking to us about a half hour TV show called radical sabaticals that will be airing this fall. we have collected over 3000 dollars in pledges for the American Cancer Society so far and we havent even left yet. so I think things are going real good, just takeing to long to leave IM READY TO GET OUT OF HERE.P.S. we also have a person building us a new web site but its not done yet so well keep you posted on that too.I will also be on here as much as possible to keep you updated on things. we really hope to get to meet a lot of you on this trip. we leave here Sept 23rd on the bus for Fort Lauderdale where my parents live then start hiking oct 1st from Key West.”

“our newweb site is upand going . please check it out. there is still more sponsors to add and anouther journal entry to do right now but I hope you like it better than the old one . just go to the old web site there is a link to the new one.”

“Buddah Bear, Pleae email me I dont think my emails are getting to you.”

“< a href="http://www.geocities.com/tecmh3/">new site

I hate those GeoCities popups that occur with every page change.”

“ya, I do to but free is still free. sorry folks about the pop ups, but I gotta keep the money going in the right place right now.”

“Thanks Violin!”

“Just goes to show that you've got to close those html tags.”