Day 32: Tent Woes

Our traveling tramp got up and became quite angry (he said a word that begins with an "F" and ends with an "uck" many times loudly). He was angry that he woke up to find that his tent had basically become Lake Erie.

He folded up his oversized water balloon and continued on the muddy farm road until hitting the county line which was also the state line. The Fool was now in West Virginia, his 6th state so far. While drying out his things under a local church's pavilion, the fool called the North Face customer service and complained about the leaky faucet feature their 2300 Vario tent had. The lady on the line was very sympathetic, but had a very good excuse why the tent leaks... it's a "high and dry" tent designed for the desert.

So, the Fool now knew he had to get a new tent. He celebrated this new-found info by calling the Rush Limbaugh show. Rush's fill-in host was more interested in the Fool's walking exploits than his political views.

The Fool continued on to Bruceton Mills where he had a chicken steak lunch with all the trimmings at a suspiciously crowded tavern for 1 o'clock in the afternoon. He then paralleled I-68 on gravel roads, trying to get close to Morgantown, WV.