There's no shame whatever in going into town, not only to eat, or to re supply and re stock up on food, but also to sleep too. People mail their own stuff, or they have friends and family do it for em. Gorp stands for good old raisins and peanuts. That may be a regional thing. I've never heard anyone call it that here.
A few short years after the hiking trails from Maine to Georgia were connected into the world’s longest hiking-only footpath, a WWII vet walked the whole thing in one go. He kicked off a challenge that’s still taken on by thousands of people each year.
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