And The Band Goes Marching On....

In the morning i head back to the trail where i left off. I was gonna redo the portion that i had already done to start with the people from trail fest, but that is going on in Oregon this year so i won't be able to attend that. but on the brighter side, i got to see my friend graduate USMC boot camp! Which was great because none of his family went to go see him. I was there at the beginning of his career as a Marine. He was really excited to see me and i guess i made him feel better. My cousin rick gave us a ride to the airport then went back to work. i stayed with Da Kidd (aka PVT. Garcia, J.) until he had to go to his gate to board his plane. I bought him a 2nd Battalion coin, which was his battatlion, and bought him lunch at the airport. I hadn't been to a Marine Corps Graduation since my own 8 years ago. It was great, saw a whole bunch of other Marine, parents crying in pride, the Marine Corps Band, and a staff sgt get a Navy Achievement Medal (NAM). Hopefully i'll be up in the Camp Pendleton area by the time Da Kidd gets to SOI so i can maybe go party with him one weekend. I also thought since I'm already in california i can talk to some of my brothers from the Marines and we can have a reunion since we didn't have one last year. But that might be a ways off from now. Anyways, tomorrow i begin the trail again and head north, placing one foot in front of the other for miles and days at a time. Wish Me luck!!!