[pct-l] '05 Alive! Who's 'packing?

[pct.hiker at mac.com (pct.hiker@mac.com)]

Hey Terry, 
I'll be picking up the pack at Kennedy Meadows this summer. I'm a 
'lowly' "mortgageandbabies.com" section hiker who's got the "Tortilla 
Curtain" to the "Gateway to the Sierras" under his soles. I'm a 
teacher, blessed to have 2.5 months of rambling time, yet cursed in 
that it is just . . . almost . . . . enough time to get a full 
thru-hike in! Almost! Regardless, I'm going mega-rah-rah-rah! and have 
decided (with, uh, tentative spousal approval) that I'm going to finish 
the trail this summer! I've lived the past few summers living 
vicariously through thru-hikers who had continued on after I'd only 
whetted my hiking appetite but had to finish up my section-hike for the 
year. Upon me return, I'd pick out a few and, like one of those 
lab-rats hitting the 'food' bar every 1.2365 seconds, slap the "refresh 
page" button on my browser, anticipating a journal update. So I've 
created an online journal myself, which can be access here: 
www.trailjournals.com/dervish. I hope that you'll choose to follow me 
with my "fantastic journey endeavors" with as much fanaticism as I did 
after I returned from the trail and read others'.??Well, believe me, in 
this aspect, it is far better to give than to receive, in that I much 
prefer giving (this time I'M the the one writing the entries) than 
receiving (reading some other hiker's journal and mentally salivating 
that I was there with them)! 
Oh, my "launch date" from KM is June 18th, the day after my school lets 
out for the summer. 
-dervish