Date: 2009-04-19
From: No Buirsness Shelter

To: Erwin, TN
Miles today: 6.0
Weather: overcast clouds

so last night none of us could fall asleep. we were all in our bags, really tightly packing the shelter cause it was sopposed to rain and we just had the giggles man! we couldnt stop laughing about everything! it was funny. and it was tooo warm! the low was like 47 and we were all so crammed together and no one could get to sleep cause of the heat! werid after just going through a blizzard. last night minnisota smith came over the fire that we had going just outsdie the shelter as we were trying to fall asleep. he asked if he could put some trash in the fire. and normally no one likes to do that cause its so bad for so many reasons, but we said, yeah we dont care thinking was would be a couple pieces of trash. this dude comes back with two large zip lock bags full of trash and throws it on the fire. so now all the smoke and smells are coming into the shelter and we are thinking, "what the hell man!??!" he put sooo much trash on the fire! he should know as a previous thru-hiker that thats not cool even in small amounts! then later he actually came back and threw another bag on and the fire flamed up and we just died laughing again. rediculous! we call him minisota trashfire now.i woke up pretty early today cause of sleeping in the shelter. i got to sleep next to ruffus and it was so great. im obsessed with that dog. so i headed out at around 8:45am and had 6 miles to go. pretty easy 6 miles though. it didnt rain during the night was was sprinking when i left so i was booking it so i could get into town and beat the rain. luckily i did that pretty good, i only got a little wet. i met up with knees about half way and we hiked into town together. we stopped at the hostel ourside of town thats on the trail and we got a soda. mmm... diet coke is so good. the rest of the crew, krank, leon and ruffus, spaceman and taxdollar followed in a little later and we wanted to get a place in town rather then staying in the hostel that was outside of town. so we get a hitch from like lady where we all pile in the back of her truck and she drives a mile down the raod and then says "i dont feel like going all the way to town, you guys can get out here" first of all, town in only 2 more miles away and second, he dropped us off in the middle of the interstate pretty much! i had no idea what direction to go! we asked another car passing by and they gave us nice directions and we walked into town. a few flat miles wasnt too bad.so we hit up a pizza buffet which was to die for! it was like pizza huts buffet but even cheaper! i started with a huge salad and then had a ton of pizza and then finished with cinimon sticks. oh god it was amazing!we tried getting a room at this small motal and all splitting it, but we got kicked out cause of ruffus. the guy didnt even want the dog stepping foot in the room. it sucked. so we were hanging at the tabacco outlet, not sure where to go cause of the dog and this woman walking by noticed we were in a delema and she said she has an empty appartment with beds and stuff if we watned to stay there for $8 a person. it was sawweeet! so we basically had 8 of us in this appartment fully furnished with shower and a kitchen. it was so cool.we wanted to get some beer and realized they dont sell beer on sundays in thsi town. so krank and i hitched to the town over about 15 miles away and picked up some beer for everyone. the lady was so nice to go out of her way to drive us and get beer. we gave her some gas money and stuff. so everyone was very pleased with us when we walked in with the beers we played catch phrase but made up our own things and just wrote them on paper and put them in a hat. it was really funny actually. we were laughing so hard! it was great. we made some tacos for dinner and had nachos in the oven. it was amazing!