Fritz Sprandel’s book is called “Adventure on a Dare”. It is available on Amazon. I read the whole thing in one sitting. It’s an excellent book. I recommend people read it. It gives you insight into what it’s like to travel across the US in the 1960s and 1970s.
Your WAWA donut analysis cracks me up. Total respect for the thought process! Most of us don’t take the time to think our many opinions N details thru. We are with you all the way!
Glad you got off trail for a few days to recover. Taking antibiotics when you really need them is kind of a little miracle, given how fast they can take effect. Whew! I am one of many of your viewers who were worried. Glad you are better. Enjoyed the interview with Fritz Sprandel. Seems he must have thought you were a kindred spirit, out there hiking the trail.
Hi Jaru😊 You look sooooo much better after the three day stay at the hotel and antibiotic therapy!! I am glad you got the rest you needed! 👍 (You looked like hell the day you knew you needed to go to the urgent care). What an experience meeting that guy! Thank you for sharing your journey. Great video! I look forward to your future videos! Stay safe! ❤
Yeah, it was actually remarkable editing this video today. Seeing me the day I went to urgent care and then the day I was back on trail, I look totally different. I remember it felt like a fog had been removed from my brain
So glad you took some time to take care of yourself. Looked like you were fading fast. Take care and go get this ACTC done. 😂 Hike on. My daughter in law is from central PA and loves Wawa. I live in northwestern PA, near Lake Erie and i had not heard of WaWa until i met her. I also just learned about Buc-ees! I need to get out more. 😆 🤣 😂
Glad you took a time-out and are doing better. The one thing you have to prove on this trip is that you can do what you are doing AND come home alive. Take care!!!
Wawa is great food. The hardest thing is figuring out how to order with the kiosk. Someone should survey how people do or don’t order and/or not get something more because of that system. I drive by them often, the first few times I used bathroom and got gas. Next few times grabbed snickers and other convenience items. Then finally braved ordering on kiosk. Didn’t realize you have to pay before they begin making. Waited really long. For non-regulars, there should be a greeter that takes order. Just saying, people need jobs, and training in service industry. I may be old school, but when I go somewhere, I want service, not do it myself. I can do that at home!
So glad you are feeling better! Giardia is miserable. I had a friend that used to drink unfiltered water in our PNW mountains. He would say "I haven'tgotten sick yet." I would laugh and reply "yet". Sure enough, he got horribly sick from a "fresh mountain stream" pooped his way out of the Olympics, ran out of TP, super weak and barely made it to a TH to be picked up. Was bed ridden for 2 weeks. I asked him afterwards if that two minutes he saved not filtering his water was worth it. 😅 He didn't laugh. 😆😉 Love your videos and your journey! 💜
We are so glad you're feeling better!!! You are one tough hiker, having endured more than most do in an entire thru hike! If it works with our work schedule my hubby and I would love to bring some trail magic your way, shuttle you...if you haven't already flown by us🙂We're not too far from road crossings at mile 1281.9 and 1290.4,
👣💕 SORRY TO HEAR YOU WERE SO SICK FOR SO LONG 💕 A FEW YEARS AGO I HAD SURGERY TO DO A COMPLETE HYSTERECTOMY AND THE SURGEON CUT INTO MY COLON BUT DIDN'T KNOW IT. AFTER GETTING HOME I JUST WASN'T RECOVERING. ENDED UP BACK IN THE HOSPITAL EIGHT DAYS LATER FOR EMERGENCY REPAIRS TO MY COLON. NOW INWAS IN THE HOSPITAL THIS TIME FOR CLOSE TO NINE DAYS. AFTER THE FIRST FEW DAYS I STARTED GETTING SICK AGAIN. THE LAST DAY I WAS THERE I TOLD THEM I WAS HURTING BAD BUT THEY DISCHARGED ME ANYWAY. FOR MONTHS I WAS SICK UNTIL SOMEONE MENTIONED I MAY HAVE C-DIFF. TRUST ME IT IS A SHITTY THING TO HAVE AND IT TOOK MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF MED AND OVER A MONTH TO FEEL BETTER.
Hi Jaru, good to see you back on trail. But OMG, the drama. Following your hike has become something of an epic journey. I could see how ill you were and was pleased you said you would get to a doctor in Port Clinton, but then you didn't and staggered on. I'm not sure who was actually more relieved when you finally took a break. You because you were ill, or viewers because we could see you really, really needed to stop. And the night time rock climbing when you fell, seriously worried at that point, I don't think you were thinking clearly. Anyway, well done for keeping going now and hoping you quickly make a full recovery. About the WaWa place, you know something people really like? Having a wide range of options. Even if every option is not as good as going to individual outlets. They get blinded by the choice, and all in one place, it's like a little piece of heaven!!! Yeah the rivers are huge but then everything in America looks a bit too big anyway.😜
There was no urgent care in Port Clinton or I would have. Yeah, absolutely different strokes for different folks. Just explaining why it’s not for me, but I also get why people like it. You are right about the options. It’s like a convenience store Trader Joe’s.
Jaru, I think some of the excitement folks from the greater Philadelphia area have for WaWa comes from a time when "other" gas station convenience stores only sold shelf stable foods (a time before RaceTrac, QT, and of course before Buc-ee's). Also important is that certain cultural foods of the area (like hoagies) are made fresh to order there in the way the locals like. When you get your hiker hunger back, try one of the hoagies made to your order.
In defense of gas station donuts... most are delivered daily from the local bakery. Local gas station local donut. Chain gas station, Krispy creme or dunkin. In my part of the country anyway. And Wawa will never compete with Buc-ee's😂❤ the food is awesome, better than fast food and cleanest bathrooms in the world!!
I think you mentioned earlier in previous video in a caption at a stream that you end up with giardia … yuck I pray you are better now. Also you are at the age where you should’ve had your meningitis shot. So I don’t think you would need to worry about that . Still hope you are feeling better.
Videos are 1-3 weeks behind. I’m in Connecticut. Rocksylvania is still overblown. I just had a harder day hiking rocks and leaves in Connecticut today than anything I saw in Pennsylvania. Crossed paths with two AT thru-hikers who finished PA last week. They agreed.
@@JaruWalksIt might be for you and the time you went through it. But it might not be for someone with bigger feet or when they went through it in extreme drought or extreme rain/mud where it's completely different. World is dynamic not static.
@@ambulowan bonkers, the elevation and the rocks are static, the only other dynamic that matters on the at is temperature and I hiked it in the winter. Elevation profile is nearly all that matters as far as challenge. go hike any mountain range for four weeks in winter and you’ll see what I mean.
Yeah, I changing to daily videos I think would be equivalent to shedding weight from my backpack. But it’s really an option of last resort because I strongly prefer the long form videos. But I will if I need to. I was just pondering it then because the last nine days with Giardia were so crazy hard.
