On May 11th we flew to San Diego, CA and headed out on a 2,700 mile trek toward Canada. It should take us somewhere around three months, but that is all speculation so only time will tell. If you are interested in following along we are going to keep journals every night and upload them to the site from our phones. Hopefully it works well but no promises. We haven’t tried the whole mobile updating thing and it is all dependent on our cell phone coverage. You can read Hannah’s Journal and Matt’s Journal, as well as reach a bit more info under the Pacific Crest Trail heading in the navigation bar.
If you read along, or if you don’t, please drop us an email or leave a comment on the journals. In fact, leave tons of comments; one a day if you can. These trips get pretty long and can get discouraging and we really do appreciate hearing from people. Even if you have nothing to say, just say “Hi”.
Do you like Social Networking? No, we don’t really either, but we have them so we might as well use them. In addition to our daily journals we will be making updates via our Facebook Page and on twitter @mattabbotts and @hannahabbotts. If you want you can follow along with these as well. We also created a map that will show our current position but it is also dependent on our cell phones so it might be a bit behind. Hopefully we will be able to get some photos up as we hike and we will have tons of good ones when we get home. Our gear list is also available if you are interested in what we are carrying.