Next year I'll be starting on 20th March. I have to leave the trail for three weeks starting about April 30th to go to my best friends wedding in the UK. My girlfriend is coming back with me to the states and as she's never been before we're going to do small city stops... we would like to do NY Philadelphia and DC for a few days each visiting friends.Then her spending about a week/10 days on the trail with me.
The trouble is the obvious logistical problems of such a journey. Where would be a good place to get off/back on the trail? Most likely gonna fly from NY as we'll be doing that journey down anyhow, save her travelling time. I'd want somewhere easily accessible by public transport or a shuttle. I can hitch out but I'm not going to put my girlfriend through hitching back in before even reaching the trail. 40 days - 420 miles to Hampton TN? or before/after....? a radical solution?!
She's going to have to leave the trail to fly back a week-10 days later.... I suppose we could also jump onto the trail in the PA NY NJ area for a week instead of doing a long journey south to my jump off spot. then I could skip that/repeat it when I get back....worrying about flipflopping as didn't want to do that. Obviously a relatively easy and beautiful stretch would be preferable..... advice please