Julie and I are hiking the Appalachian Trail in the US from Springer Mt, Georgia, to Mt Katahdin, Maine, in the north, a distance of almost 2,200 miles (3,540 km). Our journey will start in early May 2023 and is expected to take about five months. We will be mostly camping, carrying 3-5 days of supplies to get us between resupply points, where we will be staying in hostels/hotels/motels where we can. I hiked the entire Appalachian Trail back in 1986 so it will be interesting to see how much has changed and how much it has stayed the same.

Appalachian Trail - Day 043 - Pearisburg Day Off

Day: 043

Date: Tuesday, 06 June 2023

Start:  Pearisburg (AT Mile 636.1)

Finish:  Pearisburg (AT Mile 636.1)

Daily Kilometres:  0

Total Kilometres:  1072.5

Weather:  Cool in the morning, then mild with hazy sunshine.

Accommodation:  Motel

Nutrition:

  Breakfast:  Cooked breakfast/Omelette burger & hash browns.

  Lunch:  Turkey salad roll/Salad

  Dinner:  Nachos/Peach pie & rice pudding.

Aches:  None to speak of.

Highlight:  None really.

Lowlight:  Multiple emails and phone calls trying to track down Dave's new boots that should have been delivered to the post office here.  With luck, they will now be delivered to our next resupply town.  The current boots should make it that far.

Pictures: Click here (courtesy of Julie)

Map and Position: Click here for Google Map

Journal:

Not much to report for today.

A mediocre breakfast at a nearby fast food joint was followed by a walk to a local hostel to collect one of Dave's misdirected parcels and a supermarket visit.

Julie was hoping to go for a scenic walk in the afternoon but the only options seemed to be south along the Appalachian Trail, from whence we came, or north along the Trail where we will be hiking tomorrow.  So even Julie has had a relaxing day, while Dave did some admin and watched TV.

Later we returned to the Mexican restaurant across the road for dinner and had an early night.

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