Day 68: Dragon's Teeth
Our trip to Four Pines to get to the Homeplace for all you can eat fried chicken and barbeque. The restaurant closes at 8, but we only...
Day 67: Flat Virginia is NOT a Thing
Today, we were really, really trying to get twenty miles over to Niday Shelter. We started hiking at 9:15, which, for those familiar with...
Day 66: Big Dreams with Little Sleep
We were shooting for a 20 today, off to War Spur shelter. We didn't get moving until 10:15. Emily hadn't been sleeping due to extremely...
Day 65: Moving at the Speed of Food
When we woke up, Dean has arrived with coffees for each of us from Hardee's down the street. Absolute super star. For the rest of...
Day 64: The Roofs of Pearisburg
In the morning we walked over to the main building for coffee at around 7:30. Before breakfast though, all twenty five (that's a lot for...
Day 63: Bland and Dismal
There was a lot of dew in the morning. Which meant rain flies had to come off first to dry out a bit before we hit the trail. To make it...
Day 62: 7th Century
We got over to the Dollar General at around 11 for resupply. It's not our favorite place to resupply since brands are often pretty...
Day 61: To Town or Not to Town
We woke up rather early to the others getting out of the shelter and to something else. Something we hadn't seen in a long while,...
Day 60:Â A Few Raindrops More
The shelter got moving at around 7, but we saw the cloud we were sitting in and stayed situated. Especially because everything we needed...
Day 59:Â A Fistful of Raindrops
The rain is supposed to continue today, but, since we woke up in a home, no panic! The breakfast Tina made for us and the other hikers at...
Day 58: Quarter Way In
Yesterday evening we had a little cell reception and found out that Bambi's slack pack attempt to catch up to us didn't go so well. We...
Day 57: Pain, Rain, Still No Maine
We woke up around 7:30 and it was raining, so like good hikers we said carpe diem and went back to sleep. At around 9, we embraced the...
Day 56:Â Thumbin' It
Today was Mary from Maine's birthday! We celebrated with a fairly uninspiring breakfast at the Econolodge. By the time we got down there...
Day 55:Â Mi Puerto, Su Casa
Everyone finally actually got up early this morning and we were hiking by 8:30. While packing up, we saw a familiar, lovely face. Lee...
Day 54: Weighing the Scales
Unsurprisingly, without pints upon quarts of caffeine and with the noise of the fully running creek, Mary and Bruce actually slept. Their...