Thanks Ped's and Otto's!

We'd like to say a special thanks to our families who have been incredibly gracious to us over these past two weeks as we have made the final preparations to begin the hike... doing errands for us, making us meals, helping out here, there, and everywhere. I would like to give an especially especial thanks to her mothership Robin E. Otto who not only refrained from commenting as she watched us systematically demolish the house, taking over not one, not two, but three bedrooms, the living room, the kitchen, and a fair chunk of the garage with hiking paraphernalia, food stuffs, and boxes, boxes, and more boxes.