Day: 024
Date: Thursday, 18 May 2023
Start: Erwin (AT Mile 344.3)
Finish: Erwin (AT Mile 344.3)
Daily Kilometres: 0
GPX Track: Click here for Julie’s Strava & Photos from her walk in Erwin today.
Total Kilometres: 582.9
Weather: Sunny, mild and breezy.
Accommodation: Motel
Nutrition:
Breakfast: Cooked breakfast
Lunch: Turkey & cheese roll/chicken salad
Dinner: Hamburger steak dinner, peach pie and ice-cream.
Aches: None to speak of.
Highlight: Dave got a haircut and beard trim. Turned out there was a hairdresser quite close to our motel and Dave booked an early afternoon appointment to get the (overdue) job done.
Lowlight: None really.
Pictures: No photos today.
Map and Position: Click here for Google Map
Journal:
We stayed up a bit late last night so had a good sleep in this morning before walking over to the nearby supermarket, which incorporates a cafe/deli, where we got a very cheap hot breakfast.
We then spent a lot of time working out our approximate schedule and resupply needs for the next nine days which will end with our next day off in Damascus, Virginia. The weekend after next is the Memorial Day long weekend in the US and Damascus, as a vacation destination, is very booked out. We looked at a more aggressive hiking schedule to get us there a day earlier, but decided to go for a more relaxed schedule and to hitch a ride from Damascus to somewhere with more accommodation if necessary. Currently, we are about four days ahead of our rough schedule for the whole trip and the next, more relaxed, week or so will maintain that buffer.
All of our gear is now dry and we have had a quiet day apart from the haircut (see above) and Julie going for a walk this afternoon.
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