To Dover!

Hunter and I set out from the campground towards Dover with our packs on our back. Hunter led the march since he is the Garmin navigator. The trek was going to be about 15 miles in all and the Garmin said we could make it in about 5 hours. We both geared up with our Ipods which helped to keep us entertained while hiking down some REALLY long roads and even led to us having a dance party in the middle of nowhere. We were able to see some beautiful countryside since a good number of the miles we hiked were through big open fields. After 5 miles of hiking the trails eventually led us to a major highway going to Dover. The next mile we walked on the side of the highway which was pretty scary with all the cars and semi's rushing by only a few feet away from our right shoulders. We decided to take the first exit we saw since we were both uncomfortable with this mode of walking. We had been hiking for 4 hours now and we had made it 6 miles; we were beat. Our legs, shoulders, and feet were killing us. After resting for a while and realizing that there was no way we could make it the remaining 9 miles today we decided to walk to the nearest town a mile down the road. On the way I gave the old "hitching thumb" a try and sure enough a man pulled over and asked where we were heading. We told him Dover and he said "Get in", we were amazed. This was the nicest man we had met in all of England. He had his little daughter whom Hunter and I guessed was about 2 years old sitting in the back. I sat up front and Hunter in the back. As we talked with David Goodlad about our trip he asked us if we had money and if we had eaten recently. After we assured him we did and had he gave us his business card and told us to call him if we ever got into any trouble or needed anything. The rest of the 9 miles to Dover which would have taken a whole other day of hiking took about 8 minutes in a car... During those few minutes he told us about the history of the area we were in and answered any questions we had. He dropped us off at the port as we thanked him several times. We then walked into town and got lunch at a kebab place. Next we found a hotel ran by what must have been some of David's friends because they were just as nice if not nicer! They gave us a room for 10 pounds cheaper than normal! (More about Victoria and Chris later) We then slept for 6 hours from 3:30 to 9:30. We woke up laughing about how much we had slept when our plan was just to take a nap. The next 3 hours we spent walking around Dover taking pictures. Then we went back to sleep after counting our blessings.