After waking up I met Erva, who had returned home last night just after I left for bed, and enjoyed a massive breakfast. She is a sales rep for Scentsy, and left me with an air freshener before Cliff drove me back to the Exxon station. The beautiful weather seemed like it was weeks removed from the pouring rain of yesterday.
The string of four long hilly days left my knee feeling like someone had jarred an ice pick into it. I took an extended warm up walk to an abandoned pool supply store where I started doing some stretching. As I was laying down a pickup truck stopped by worried that I had just been hit by a car. I started talking to Lawrence and Bryan a bit and Lawrence offered me a foreclosed house that he was managing in Effort to stay in for the night. I was originally planning on staying at an overpriced dumpy motel and was glad to take him up on their offer.
After kind of limping through the run and climbing one last final hill to the house, I met back up with Lawrence and Bryan who informed me that they wouldn't be able to turn the water on for me because someone had stolen the copper pipes out of the walls. Lawrence then offered to let me stay at his place back in Jonas, a town I had passed earlier in the day, which I gladly accepted.
Before driving back to his home, Lawrence wanted to show me one of his favorite sites in the area that he had just recently discovered. We drove awhile before stopping at some state game lands that were probably less than a half mile from Cliff and Erva's home that I stayed in last night. After about a half mile hike, Lawrence made me look down at my feet while I got into the clearing before revealing the gorge carved out by the Lehigh River. This was probably the best view of nature I'd seen since western Nebraska.
We arrived to his house after stopping at the family farmhouse that he would be moving into this winter. Here I met his girlfriend Jamie and took a shower in the first spa shower I'd seen on this run. Lawrence's sister, an avid runner, came over to meet me and we had dinner from Mike's Pizza. After hearing my plans for the next few days, Lawrence and Jamie offered to pick me up from Stroudsburg tomorrow and host me for an off day on Sunday. I was really lucky to meet such a great couple who would give me a great last few days in Pennsylvania.
The string of four long hilly days left my knee feeling like someone had jarred an ice pick into it. I took an extended warm up walk to an abandoned pool supply store where I started doing some stretching. As I was laying down a pickup truck stopped by worried that I had just been hit by a car. I started talking to Lawrence and Bryan a bit and Lawrence offered me a foreclosed house that he was managing in Effort to stay in for the night. I was originally planning on staying at an overpriced dumpy motel and was glad to take him up on their offer.
After kind of limping through the run and climbing one last final hill to the house, I met back up with Lawrence and Bryan who informed me that they wouldn't be able to turn the water on for me because someone had stolen the copper pipes out of the walls. Lawrence then offered to let me stay at his place back in Jonas, a town I had passed earlier in the day, which I gladly accepted.
Before driving back to his home, Lawrence wanted to show me one of his favorite sites in the area that he had just recently discovered. We drove awhile before stopping at some state game lands that were probably less than a half mile from Cliff and Erva's home that I stayed in last night. After about a half mile hike, Lawrence made me look down at my feet while I got into the clearing before revealing the gorge carved out by the Lehigh River. This was probably the best view of nature I'd seen since western Nebraska.
We arrived to his house after stopping at the family farmhouse that he would be moving into this winter. Here I met his girlfriend Jamie and took a shower in the first spa shower I'd seen on this run. Lawrence's sister, an avid runner, came over to meet me and we had dinner from Mike's Pizza. After hearing my plans for the next few days, Lawrence and Jamie offered to pick me up from Stroudsburg tomorrow and host me for an off day on Sunday. I was really lucky to meet such a great couple who would give me a great last few days in Pennsylvania.
Lehigh River Overlook
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