Ground Cover: From Syracuse to DC and in Between!

Ever since reading the book - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson we have toyed with the idea of hiking the Appalacian Trail. I'd love to do a through hike but doing it in sections I've a number of years is probably more realistic. ... We ditched the rental car and bought a couple of train tickets for DC the next morning. It's 250 miles between New York and DC so we picked an ealry train and headed to DC the next morning. The train was pretty cool! ...