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M finds the keys and we thank our

rescuers profusely. I snap their

photo for the album and we go on

our way to Letterkenny.

We realize we’d
tried to do too

much in one

day but have no

choice but to

continue as all

our belongings are back in Ardra. We stop and pick up a young

couple just outside the park and take them to the main

highway. I can’t imagine ever picking up hitch hikers in the

U.S. but we’d seen them out at the Castle and found out that

they both live in the town with the “Tea Room from Hell”. She

goes to school in Dublin but is home for the summer. We saw

many hitch hikers everywhere – it’s a very acceptable mode of

transportation in Ireland.

We stop in Donegal and eat at the Abby Hotel and have huge
plates of food – two pork chops, broccoli, French fried onion

rings, potatoes (English fries). We continue on and finally get

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