Date: 2005-06-08
From: Waynesboro, VA

To: Waynesboro, VA
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: few clouds

I slept the sleep of the dead last night. I do not remember waking much during the night. I guess I needed it after the last few days! I still woke early and went for my coffee. I went back to the campsite and sat on the bench, enjoying the quiet of the morning. Morning is, by far, my favorite part of the day. Guess that's the reason I get up so early. I also went through my maildrop trying to decide what food to carry and what to bounce ahead. By time I got done with that I heard Break stirring. I asked her if it was a "break" day and she said yes. She was going to rest her foot as much as possible. I still had couple of things to do in town, one of which was getting fuel alcohol. I grabbed Break's fuel bottle also and headed into town. Waynesboro is a great town. The people are friendly and people stop by the camp area to say hi and offer rides to those that need them. The store owners are accomodating. For example, I got to the hardware store and asked if they sold denatured alcohol by the ounce. The man asked how much I needed and I showed him our fuel bottles. He told me .75 cents. I asked him .75 cents an ounce (which was ridiculous because it would have ten dollars to fill the bottles!)and he told me .75 cents total. Wow, that was a more than an excellent price! I have seen it as high as .40 an ounce on the trail. On the way back I saw two packs by the post office. It's always a good place to check to see who has come in. I walked in and saw Soulman and Brownie. They had also done a big day yesterday and had arrived in the evening. They were thinking about heading out but I mentioned the fact that were going to bar-b-que tonight so they were on the fence now. They also told me that Scholar got in last night also but they didn't know where she was. I told them where we were and headed back to the campsite. When I got back to the campsite I finally sat down and did what I have been wanting to do since Catawba. Repair my one pair of shorts, the ones that I can make into long pants. They had caught on a guard rail and torn along the zipper of the convertible section. So, armed with needle and thread I made the repairs. A tailor I'm not, but the repair works for me so I guess that is all that counts. Eventually Brownie, Soulman, and Scholar came down to the campsite and the bunch of us had a little cookout. It was a good time! Three of the four original GLGE'ers are together again, at least till tomorrow or so. Weatherman is back on the trail but he is back about a week or so. I received a message from him saying that he will probably flip up to catch us as soon as we figure out a good spot. Break told me earlier that she was going to jump ahead a few miles to catch up with a couple of people that are getting off the trail soon. She wanted to be able to say goodbye. She then was going to come back to pick up the section she missed. I don't really want to jump ahead so we talked about the options of where we could meet up again. Kinda sucks. Then she reminded me that we still had 1300 + miles to go and a few miles difference was not a big deal. As usual, she makes sense. Another variable in the whole thing was her foot. She said she could be back sooner than she thinks if it is still acting up. My revised plan is to now hang out in W'boro till Friday at the earliest. Scholar told me the rest of the crew should start showing up on Thursday, including Poet! We will see how things go.