This morning I went to my high school and talked to the science classes about going to college and being an engineer. It was interesting. Some of the kids seemed interested and asked questions. None of my old teachers were still there. The new chemistry teacher drives tanks in the Army, and he says he always gets very happy when he sees the fighter jets coming in to provide him support.

It was still raining today, but we couldn't wait to get into the woods any longer. We went into Jefferson National Forest and hiked on the Iron Mountain trail east from Highway 21. Soon after entering the forest we saw an old steel car, it looked like a 1950's sedan or something. The only thing left was the metal, no glass, no upholstery, no paint. It was wrapped around a tree. It was very interesting, and I wonder how it got there. Its cool how old junk is fascinating, but if it had been new junk, like a 2000 Chevy or something, it just would have been trash.

We hiked up for quite a while, and then we went along the ridge line, up and down along the crest. This used to be part of the Appalachian Trail, but that has been relocated, and now this is just a trail for hikers and horses and mountain bikes. We saw some horse poo, but we never saw any other people on the trail. It rained a little, and there were patches of fog, but there were also patches of sun. The forest was very thick and quiet, and we couldn't see anything except more mountains and trees. We had no idea how long the trail was, or where it went, so after two hours we decided to turn around, so we would be back before the sun went down.