Date: 2008-04-17
From: lambert's meadow shelter

To: daleville, va
Miles today: 9.4
Weather: clear sky

Playing catch-up as I never seem to have time to write while in town.Our favorite hikers rolled in late; like one at 8:30 as we were getting ready for bed and the other at midnight on the dot. Pretty rude. The raccoon got them back though...Up early and felt obligated to make enough noise to get them up too. Out early for the trip into town.Rolling hills and some cliffs and ridges into town. A little rocky in the 3 mile long cliff portion but some nice views of the towns. Tons of power lines, always a downer.Rolled into town fairly early as we hadn't decided if we would do an in and out or stay. Hit food first, surprise surprise. Ate at Bojangles, a southern chicken place. Had the large chicken dinner. Humus shared a boberry biscuit with me but it wasn't all he made it out to be. Good food, enough to stay the hunger for the time being.Went to the outfitter next to pick up our packages. My summer gear had not gotten there yet despite being mailed 2-3 day priority mail more than a week before. What's up with that? Completely outrageous. They better not have lost it.Bought a couple small things at the outfitter and admired the mountain kilt with Bad Humus once again. Still debating on that. The low gaiters too.Headed to the PO for a fruitless attempt to see where our packages were {TB was missing his too}.Then a 180 back past the trail to the Comfort Inn where we decided to stay. Ended up being $14 each for a room for the three of us. Not bad.We tore our stuff apart like always and went through it. Made food lists and got ready to go shopping.Well, you may have notice I have come to love the Dollar General. There happened to be a Dollar General Market across the street from the Inn. This made me very happy. The market turned out to be a dollar store of epic proportions. I said {Humus wrote it down} "Its the Wal-Mart of Dollar Generals". It was glorious. Resupplied and got some snacks and drinks for $15. Can't beat that.Back to the room to start putting everything back together. We walked in, and apparently our gear smells a little bit. We were hit by a wave of hiker stench as we opened the door. I feel sorry for whoever has to attempt to get rid of that.Made some calls and caught up on email and the like. Nice to check if the world still exists every couple weeks. Then the stomachs called. They pointed towards Shoney's. For those of you that don't know, Shoney's features ad daily all you can eat buffet. Tonight was BBQ night. They had BBQ chicken, ribs, pork, beef, and a spread of all the fixings and fruit and salad, and even some stuff that we couldn't identify but ate anyways.I had 3 heaped plates of the BBQ stuff and then 2 heaped plates of fruit and some veggies. Lots of bread too. Hooray for being full. Saved some room for the dessert we had back at the room.More calls when we got back to the room. We had 3 boxes of Little Debbies we passed around. Mmmm.I probably put down 5000 calories or so today. The joy and curse of being a hiker.Eventually we realized that we hadn't even gotten showers yet; the primary reason we decided to overnight in town. Quickly remedied and off to bed.