hey I made it to Erwin TN which is around 340 miles in, the smokeys were amazing not as tuff as I amagined they would be, i think it was the coolest part of the trail so far besides that fact it was full of spring breakers. It got really instrusting a few nights. I had one day of bad weather for the week I was there, and for the smokeys thats really good. I will put pictures from there up later I sent them home before I could get a chance to load them. After the smokies I got cleaned up and relaxed at standing bear hostal on the other side of the park before I started toward hotsprings. Hotsprings was really fun. I took a few days off there and had a great time by the river in a cabin. Eat alot of food there and finally was able to get full for the first time in 3 weeks. From Hotsprings I hiked some really tuff up hill all day days to Erwin TN, but finally paid off the third day when I reached big bald. It was 360 degress of veiws of all the mountains around me. I sat up there for hours taking as much of it up as I could. I got some trail magic a couple of times in the last few days. One christin couple took me into there home and feed me till i couldn't eat anymore from waffles to banana bread al la mode. then the next day some couple day hikers gave me 20 dollars to get something to eat in Erwin. Makes you think there are some really good people out there besides what the tv news tell you about. Times are good, People are good, Life is good!
egads!!! great bud of spring! standing bears--- it seems like you are having quite the adventure. so you keep pickin'em up and puttin'em down and remember, people who don´t pay attention to children and animals are taboo... and there ain´t no hills out there too big for a stepper
ReplyDeleteHi, glad you made it and the weather treated you well. All sounds so lovely, and you are so right, people are nice, if you expect them to be they will be. Good luck with the next stretch.
ReplyDeletemuch love Martine and Mirinda
hi dustin/son..it was great to hear form you and im glad everything is finally going you way for a change! i got the pic of you standing on top of a mountain and angela just loved it and and plans to have it framed, cant wait to see all the other pics this weekend when ali gets here! i miss and love ya very much..just remember its one step at a time! stay safe!!
ReplyDeletehey dustin,
ReplyDeleteHad no clue you were doing this until Saturday when Amanda and I had lunch together at Wah Sings! This is amazing and hope you are having so much fun. I know last SPring break, Si and I and some friends went to Gatlinburg and planned to stay in the mountains and camp for 3 nights. However, it only turned into 2 nights because the next it was supposed to rain. We hiked one of the trails just for one day, and I know the feeling you get when you accomplish it is amazing so I can only imagine what you are experiencing out there. I enjoyed looking at your pictures and saved your blog to my favorites so I can remember to look at it again while you are doing this. Keep up the hard work and you can accomplish great things. As one of my facebook quotes states, "The difference between the possible and the impossible, lies in the person's determination." So keep it up, it looks like you have a great support system waiting on you to get home after completing this! You are in my prayers!