Date: 2014-05-14
From: daleville,va

To: daleville,va
Miles today: 0.0

Spice got up early to get gone early. He is young and on a tight schedule so he is motivated to make miles. He was packed just after 6 and headed down to the free continental breakfast. There is absolutely no way to quietly pack so capt and i were awake and i thought, hmmm im a little hungry so we put on some clothes and went down to the breakfast. Capt was graoning about being tired and up early, i told him to drink coffee. Free breakfast is good cuz its free and its food but i must say, if you are a hotel that puts up a lot of hikers, put out a respectable styrofoam bowl for cereal. Hikers dont often get real milk so if thats an option with cereal, we eat it, a shit ton of it. I filled my bowl 5 times trying to fill myself. I got the job done at last, we said good bye to soice and headed back to the room to pack. We both plunked down on a bed to digest for a minute when captain said, 'oh man, im shot from yesterday'. I was concerned, define shot? He felt bad, probly dehydrated and too much sun. I joked and said 'zero?' He was all for it. Surprised i thought, what the hell, why not. We would have been a day past glasgow to meet cindy saturday anywas. This way we will just end there to meet her. Perfect. I went back to the office and booked the room for one more night. We layed around, reshowered, and took a walk down to a legit coffee store. I was thinking of something we could do cheaply on a zero day but could come up with nothing. We drank coffee, shopped for a local home in a realty magazine, read about the local 4h group on a flyer, and counted how many ceiling tiles in the coffee shop. We needed something to do! A friendly looking lady came in for a coffee so captain asked her if there was anything we should see while in Daleville. She was a local but couldnt thimk of anything. She offered us a ride over to roanoke but we would have to get a taxi back. She said there was a mall and a movie theater there. Neither sounded exciting to me so we declined, greatful for the offer. She then told us of a nice park where hikers hang out and asked if we wanted a ride, YUP! She loaded us up in her car and we were off. Making conversation i found out she cuts hair for a living. My ears perked up, i was in need of a trim, my hair was as long as its been in years. She said she only had scissors with her but she would do what she could. I was pumped. She trimmed me up under a pavillion where hikers can camp for free with oublic bathrooms and showers also for free and the firehouse next door. How nice was that? I wished she had clippers but was glad for the trim. She told us the best way to get back and left us to hang out at the park for a while. It was a really nice place. I had to make a few calls so that pretty much took up the afteenoon. One long one about work to my Fahy kitchen family and one to my ma. It had been a while since i called so i pounced on the opportunity with free time. Its amazing how much free time you dont have out here, there is always something to do. It looked like bad weather coming so we headed back to the hotel. Back there we saw some friens just checking in, we made a dinner date back at the bbq place we had eaten last night and had fun eating and talking. It was Taz, Crocs, Lions, Trip, capt, and i. There was a new guy too that had only started a couole days earlier but i dont recall his name. He is Danish and i had a real difficult time understanding him, big surprise right. On the walk back i was talking to Taz about trail magic when a car pulled over right in front of us. Out hopped a guy and said 'yall want some trail magic?!' yes we did. He was an ex thru hiker heading back to damascus for the bigf trail days event. He had a cooler full of soda and boxes of snacks for us to opick from. This kind of thing is just too crazy to convey how cool it is. It was a nice zero and it even seemed like we rested rather than walk all over like usual. With a horrible weather forecast we would be heading out into the rain in the morning. I wasnt worries about the flash flood warning, how could anything possibly happen to the luckiest guy ever in the history if ever?