What a warm welcome to NC. It rained on us the whole day coming in the second state of my journey,and snowed the second day. It got COLD! I hiked the whole day trying to make it to the next shelter which was 12 miles away. When i got to the shelter it was in bad shape, had no floor and leaned a little. My pride was broken. I looked to see where the next shelter was on my map to get out of the storm and it was 7 miles away on the other side of the mountain, so I mentaly preped myself to push on. I got back on the trail and got about 200 yards down when out of the corner of my eye I saw a new shelter with the guys I been hiking with. I think this was the most emotinal day of my trip so far. I jumped up and down with joy and would have rolled around in the snow if it wasnt so cold. We made it into Franklin NC at the end of the third day. The sky cleared and the sun popped out ,and it turned out to be a good day to hike 16miles out. Next full stop will be on the other side of the Great Smokey Mtn. National Park in Hot springs. Im going to ship myself some food ahead right before the park, so i want have to stop to resupply. I should make it to the park in about 4 or 5 days, and to Hotsprings in about 12 days from now.
Do you know how proud I am of you? SO PROUD!! I love you.... be careful......Mom
ReplyDeleteok after seeing the fisrt pic i changed my mind! im glad im not there!..lol awesome pic of the tree, its probably the best pic ive seen of that tree so far. you should be getting some nice days soon, because its been pretty nice here. the tomatoes are great this year, i think we hit the mark! i will have to send you some soon. take care, love you very much..stay safe...dad...btw your wheat looks good in your yard!
ReplyDeleteGlad you are getting better weather. Hope it stays that way. Stay safe. It looks beautiful there. Love the pic's.
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Keep it up cousin, this is cool stuff i enjoy reading about your trip. to be honest i wish i had the power and strength to do what your doing. awesome pics. keep on going man u can do it... If you want me to send you anything let me know. See u when you return.
ReplyDeleteHi, glad to see things are going well for you. Can sympathise with the snow trekking, I am a postlady and a few weeks ago we had several days of struggling through knee deep drifts to do my round (this is pretty bad for Britain). I love the sound of 'Hotsprings'.
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ADONIS AND I WANT TO WISH YOU A HAPPY BIRTHDAY!WE LOVE YOU AND I WILL TALK TO YOU SOON.....LOVE YA ADONIS AND MOM
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