Date: 2007-04-27
From: Hot Springs, NC

To: Hot Springs, NC
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: light rain

Oh what a night! Everyone is so hung over this morning. We are all downing advil and drinking gatorade. We only have 2 beds in our room of 4 people so Grizzle & I bunked together last night. He claimed I tried to put an arm over him last night but I don't think so. Today everyone just hung out for the most part. Grizzle, ChurchMouse and I went to the local diner for breakfast. Wow what a breakfast it was too! Due to last nights eventful nature I didn't have much of an appetite but it was good none the less. The rest of the guys and some members of "The Vortex/Team Ewok" went to the river clean up. Hikers volunteer a morning, get free breakfast & lunch, to float on rafts down the French Broad River and pick up a lot of trash along its banks. Since my ankle is injured I chose not to participate. It was a good thing I didn't too because when everyone got back they said the whole thing sucked. They said the water was flat, meaning no rapids, and the wind was high. So high that if they didn't paddle hard the wind would push them back upstream. Keys of Team Ewok found a cat skull along the bank & brought it back. Grizzle, ChurchMouse and I went down to the outfitter around noon. We looked across the street to see Tic (the guy I threw out of the bar last night) and his buddy Radar putting back pitchers of beer. It was around noon and they were absolutely hammered. We checked out the outfitter for a while. Drooling over new gear is more what we did for the most part. Around an hour later everyone got back from that river trip and we all went back to chill in the lawn in front of the hotel. It was getting to be beer time so we made a beer run and just relaxed for a while. Radar & Tic showed up barely walking. I mean Radar was the drunkest one could possibly be and still be standing or even then he was barely standing. He was making no sense and was falling asleep every 5 minutes. When he was awake it was funny to watch his antics. That was way better than tv. Then someone, probably his drunk buddy Tic, gave him a beer. He saw the cat skull that Keys found and picked it up. It was all down hill from here. JustJames dared him to lick the cat skull & much to our dismay, he did. Then someone dared Radar to drink a beer out of it and despite everyone yelling NO, NO DON'T DO IT!!!, he friggin did it. We all almost puked. At this point the PainTrain had enough his disgusting acts so we went inside and chilled and watched tv in hopes the 2 drunk retards would stumble off somewhere else. A couple of minutes passed before Radar stumbled into our room to use the bathroom and I said no. He didn't like that at all. He couldn't believe that I would deny the use of our bathroom. I told him to believe it and to walk the 20 feet down to his room so he could piss all over his bathroom and not ours. He talked some senseless shit for a minute before walking down to his bathroom. He came back and told his buddy Tic that we were horrible to him & some more senseless crap that we never said and Tic got all pissed off too. They were still sitting outside our room & we had the door opened listening to them start talking about breaking necks and busting heads & killing people. They talked some serious crap for about 5 minutes to stoke each other up before Tic decided to be a Billy Bad Ass. Tic came walking into our room and looked at me and asked to take a piss. I told him no too. He couldn't believe it either and got pissed. I knew that he was just testing us to see if we would tell him no. Since I had already delt with his drunk ass the night before and threw him out of the bar, I knew he was harmless. He tried to talk some big talk for a second before Grizzle and rest of the guys backed me up and told he had better walk away. He realized it was a bad idea when he saw they were outnumbered really bad. Them 2 drunk idiots against our 8 was a bad idea in their condition. They walked away and steemed for a while over by their room. We gave it about 10 minutes before SideShow went outside to cleam up some bottles. Radar came over and starting talking to SideShow. Mostly was apologizing but he was still heated & was cooling off. I didn't trust him so I hung out in the doorway just a couple of feet behind him. Radar turns around and sees me and puts his "powerpants" on and gets pissy again. He starting asking me all sorts of stupid questions and I told him I didn't have to explain myself to him and he better walk away. He wouldn't walk away but starting making claims how he used to beat up bikers and he used to kill people. I told him he would get one more chance to walk away before I beat his ass. That was when SideShow & Grizzle saved the day. Grizzle starting saying he was a vegan and the cat skull thing pissed him off & that's why we didn't let him use the bathroom. The funny thing is, Grizzle isn't a vegan at all! The boy eats more meat than I do. SideShow jumped in like Dr Phil and I knew what was going on then. So we had some fun with him for about 10 minutes before SideShow decided to kick the Dr Phil act up another notch. Radar ended up crying for another 5 mintues before he then decided to tell us he was some karate master. He teard up again as he told us another farfetched life-story. SideShow got him good and calmed down after another 15 mintues and he apologized again before stumbling back to his & Tic's room to pass out. We didn't see them anymore tonight. ByteCode let me borrow his cell phone to call my parents. They told me they were oing to ride up on the motorcyle and stay the night in town. So I get to see my parents again which is AWESOME! WE all got ready to go to the bar this evening. We got some pizza from the diner and brought it back to the room to save some money. SideShow & I wore our kilts which were a big hit with the ladies at bar. When we were there around 10pm, the live music kicked up. The band was awesome. They played some Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Skynrd and all that really good southern rock music. We hung out all night and danced and hollered and had a good ole time. Grizzle is from north GA but everyone else is from New England so he & I taught them how to yell the right way. Surprisingly all my yankee friends had an awesome time listening to that music. BigBy especialy loved it. We stayed there until about midnight. We left the bar and right behind it was these nice cottages when our friends from the "Vortex" set up a nice bonfire and some chairs. We partied there for a while before Choch & I stumbled back to the room. Grizzle & SideShow were already passed out and as soon as I hit the bed I was too. I just can't stay up very late on the trail. I get too worn out. We all had a blast tonight though.GOOD TIMES...A LITTLE TOO GOODBigShanty