"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you're dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing." -Benjamin Franklin

Wow...8 days and counting. I can't belive our hike is approaching so quickly. Our very first test has been this journal. It's astonishing how irritated two very strong willed, obnoxious personalities can become when they try to write together. It does not help when both people have a need to be right all of the time and different writing styles. Thank God our journal will be updated by Low's brother while we are on the trail. It is hard to imagine how annoying this process would be, if we both sat down every night to try to maintain this journal together.For those who do not already know, our trail names are Sweet and Low- The Diabetic Duo. Trail names are monikers assumed by those hiking in place of their "normal" names. Some hikers will give themselves their trail name. While others will be given a name by fellow hikers due to some perceived character trait, i.e. Snickers eats a lot of Snickers and Crash is a wee bit clumsy etc. Our self-assumed trail names are an ode to both our prefered control of our diabetes as well as being diabetic. Low likes to run his blood sugars on the lower side. Sweet likes her blood sugar a little higher(she has a tendency to drop quickly once she goes below 90). The only outward appearance to others of our diabetes is our "lows and highs". All rolled together it should make for an interesting 2000+ miles, but we're up for the challenge.