Date: 2009-06-02
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Miles today: 646.0

Here we are at the captains house...the captain is amazing...he lives across the river from the trail and has a zip line that runs down to his house. We have showered, interneted, and are playin cornhole in the yard! So far 646 miles done. Trail days was a blast. The apple orchard gang had a blast hanging out with everyone. Logans family and my family being there was great. and a big thanks to all of our amazing friends that came out too! We spent many nights hanging out around fires, eating great food, and having excellent company. We got to go over to my grandparents house and have a great dinner one night too. We did a slack pack out of damascus 11 miles with logans fam. they got a little taste of what our life is like day in and day out(minus carrying the backpacks)...after we left damascus on monday we got a hitch up the mtn. with some great guys that live in abingdon. we made it about 2 miles that day and found a awesome campsite by the river and decided it was time to do some fishin/reading/nothing for the afternoon. the next morning duck man convinced us we should walk down the VA creeper for a few miles and then connect back over to the AT. well when we got to a map a few miles later...we learned that we were going the opposite way from the AT and that we needed to hitch back...ha thanks duckie for getting us lost...finally a great man picked us up, took us to the store for burgers and then up to the trail head. we works for Cabelas and shot a video of us hiking for some ad. (yea we are famous now :-) Next was Mt. rogers! it was so beautiful. i think the best view we've had...the wild ponies had just had their babies so we spent the evening playin with ponies...the next day was trail magic day! we found a cooler on the trail with lots of goodies! and then we got to a road and a man took us into the country store for some greasy delicious food! on to Atkins, VA from there. we camped right by the hwy, near a 24hour gas station...it was a fun night...seneca and duck man stayed in atkins that night to go to the dirt track. they had a blast "volunteering" at the track/eating sandwiches and getting rides in fast cars. haha they caught up with us the next morning... we camped that evening with some SC boys...one of them logan knows from home,randall. good stuff.then the rain came...lots of rain..we were soaked...one morning we were camped beside a dirt road and in the am a truck came by with some ppl from arkansas asking if we wanted free hot breakfast...it was the best breakfast i've ever had all home cooked by these people that came all the way from Arkansas just to feed hikers...AMAZING. we had no intentions of going into bland that day, but duckman went on in ahead of us so we said why not since the weather is so bad...it was nice to get a shower and "wash" our clothes. we did laundry in the tub. i've never seen blacker water. it was disgusting. i officially smell really bad and i don't think my clothes will ever lose the stinch. haha oh well!so on down the trail we went...we sat at the trail head .4 from trents grocery deciding if we should go get hot dogs or not...(yes, everything revolves around food for us!) we voted yes...magallen and seneca had booked it on to pearisburg,va. so we get on the road and who drives by in a truck but magellen and seneca...how did they get a truck? and what perfect timing...well the deputy sheriff in town heard them say they needed to find a ride and just gave them his truck for the weekend..!*! needless to say we got a ride to the store and ate a bunch of food and then spent a wonderful afternoon at the dismal waterfalls. they took our back packs in the truck to the next hostel so we did 20 miles to get to woodshole...then on to pearisburg...so we still had the sheriffs truck when we got there...we went to dinner and this lady came in yelling who is driving the green truck...said it was her's and that her ex husband had stole it and her dog...UT OH! we were all just starring at her in shock...she said he wasn't a cop that he was crazy...what had we gotten ourselves into...well, they were just playing a joke on us...she was married to the cop and he was standing outside watching our reactions....haha. we had so much fun with so many great friends that night...our first night out of pearisburg we had the most intense "in tents...haha" lightning and thunder storm at about 3 in the am...none of us got the slightest bit wet....so here we are at the captains house....nice to hang out for the day and enjoy the good weather...everyone is in good health...logans knee has been bothering him but he seems to be healing up...we are having a blast hiking and our next stop will be daleville, VA. we have hiked well over a quarter of the trail now...until next time....we love and miss all of you! -george/logan/ and corbin