[at-l] Bogey and Slim's 2007 Adventure

[Sloetoe]

### Tremendously what she said. I look forward to
reading of your 'heading out' in the near future.

'toe

--- Jan Leitschuh <janl2 at mindspring.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Wow. 
> I feel like hugging you guys.
> You've spent a year in your heart. First the trail,
> then with your mom.
> 
> I'm so sorry for your loss, and the richness, beauty
> and sorrow of your tale touched me.
> Welcome back.
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:26:20 -0400
> From: "Slim's Mail" <bogey at toast.net>
> Subject: [at-l] Bogey and Slim's 2007 Adventure
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> Listers,
> I haven't received at-l for at least 3 months. Don't
> know why but low and
> behold today "There it was!" So here I am saying
> hello. 
> Our condolences to Gran-ma Soule's loved ones.
> As some of you know me and my hubby aka Bogey and
> Slim started a thru-hike on March
> 26. We made it to Catawba when we had to go home. 
> My (Slim's) mother was ill
> and getting worse during the time we hiked. She was
> our one woman support team. 
> As we called home she told us she had pain that was
> so bad she couldn't cook,
> bathe, or eat and my siblings were not doing what I
> could have done. In Pearisburg
> we were expecting a package she was going to send
> and she was always reliable. When
> it wasn't at the Post Office I knew something was
> seriously wrong. We called
> her and she told us she was diagnosed with lung
> Cancer. We cried. We then for 4 
> days agonized over the love of the dream hike and
> the love for my dear 79 year old
> mother sufffering all alone. It was a no brainer. So
> we stayed at Niday shelter 
> where we met Daybreak and Blue Yonder and later a
> miracle would evolve from that
> meeting.  There's always another year for our hike
> but mom needs us now we said.
> She cried when we ca
>  lled her from Daleville & told her that we were
> coming home. She wanted us 
> to stay on the trail but in her heart I know she was
> glad.  Just by fate Blue Yonder
> and Daybreak had a van in Damascus that they needed
> driven to  Harpers Ferry and
> we needed a way home to Pennsylvania. It worked out
> that we got home on May 23rd
> and took mom into our home and took care of her
> until she passed away on July 26.
> We are still in mourning. I never knew the true
> depth of the love I had for her 
> until she was gone.  We are now settling her estate.
> 
> A BIG THANKS to Blue Yonder (who is just finishing
> her thru-hike) and Daybreak. 
> BTW: we loved the Trail and the other hikers and
> everything was going well.  We 
> miss the sights, sounds and smells of the forest.
> Next year we go again but earlier.
> We're on trailjournals.com/bogeyandslim 
>   
> Slim aka Nancy
> 
> One of my favorite quotes:   "I went to the woods
> because I wished to live 
> deliberately, to front only the essential facts of
> life, and see if I could not 
> learn what it had to teach, and not, when I had come
> to die, discover that I had
> not lived." 
> ---Henry David Thoreau
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