Made it to Hiker Hostel....great stories...great people already and haven't even started. Met up with Gypsy Girl, Free Fall and Kerin and the train stop. Gypsy Girl is from Australia, 62 years old and is starting the AT again after breaking her leg last year...and making it to Mt. Washington. Said she had to come back to start over. free fall did the AT in 2003, the PCT and the CDT and is here to do a quick 3 week hike. Everyone is great...lots of thoughts about today - fear, excitement, wierd about leaving Carolyn, leaving home without keys to the house, getting a great text message from my son...seeing the Chatahoochee (sp) river on the train - whizing right by where I use to catch snakes and crawfish in Sandy Springs (it all started there!). It was wierd walking through a fancy shopping mall in Buckhead to see a friend from Northwestern Mutual...obviously got quite a few stares.
Everything is good to go for tomorrow...Day One...rained 2 inches yesterday so I hope to have that behind us. Am typing this at the Hiker Hostel...very nice place with about 10 hikers here tonight. We ordered chinese food for dinner.
all for now...
Hey Don - will be following you and have included you in my prayers for safety and success! Love you. Barb
ReplyDeleteDon, not even on the trail yet and already have hooked up with "gypsy lady". Now I understand why you got the nickname "PD". Always knew you liked the older ladies. (And did see Carolyn hanging out at the UWM union yesterday rather than her usual coffee haunts in Shorewood...Hmmmmm.)
ReplyDeleteIn order to give you more incentive to complete the AT (like you reallly need it), or, I should say, a little more incentive, Victoria and I would like to donate 10 cents per mile to Repairers of the Breach.
Take good care of yourself, Bill
Good to hear you are having a good time thus far!
ReplyDeleteLove,
Ben