Week Three: Flash-Bandit's Adventure Continues

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My trail-hiking son didn’t send a text message yesterday to update his location “because he couldn’t get a cell signal at the hostel.” He did, however, have WiFi access and I was able to confirm his location based on his Facebook account (it seems the fact that he could message me using Facebook completely slipped his mind). For those who haven’t read my previous updates. The yellow pins in the map indicate where we dropped him off and then where we met him two weeks into his journey. The top green pin was his starting location and the white pin further up the map is his goal for this week. The plan is for me to meet him at that point on Friday to help him and his trail buddies to resupply and to take some of his cold weather gear off his hands (now that he’s through the Smokies he likely won’t see snow again and hopefully won’t be dealing with as much rain). There are some significant gaps between the green pins this week. That is not an indication that he has been making significantly greater daily distances (though he has) instead it is simply the result of inconsistent cell phone coverage. I only put green pins in my map when I get an actual location update from him. I think it’s safe to say that he still has many miles to go.