Date: 2016-04-21
From: NOC

To: NOC
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: overcast clouds

4/21 - Today I decided to take another zero day because Nilla was going to wait for Potatos and Twisted to catch up I thought that was a good idea since they walk around the same pace as me and have a lot in common. Waiting around is not so bad when you're not paying for a room every night. So first thing on my mind, breakfast lol Shocker I know. So, we go to breakfast and I ordered something called The Class V Breakfast reading the words on the page was exciting because just reading it, it sounded big but when they sat all the food in front of my I quickly realized I called down the thunder of all breakfasts, it took up the whole side of my table. I felt both ashamed and pure bliss at the same time. After seeing the food I figured out the "class five" reference was a white water kayaking term for the hardest and most dangerous Rapids you can face, my breakfast was all of those things and I ate every bite. After committing gluttony (don't worry, I asked for forgiveness) we sat out and watched all the people kayaking and talked to fellow hikers learning about where they're all from and why they're hiking the AT, Nilla points out this guy who had really creeped her out the day before and sure enough creeping every other girl out that he talked to, after giving this guy the stink eye for a bit we set off down the railroad tracks to our campsite and low a behold guess who's right behind us, Creepy White Guy!!! I was hoping he wasn't the tent next to mine but I already knew it was. Why me? It was the tent next to mine...I asked if Nilla wanted to move but since I was here with her she was cool with staying because it was a really nice spot right off the Rapids. So thinking about this I don't know if I ever told you guys about Nilla, she's from a military family dads in the Army I think. She and her family hiked 700 miles of the AT last year but someone got hurt I can't remember who and since she was only 17 at the time she had to get off the trail with her family. This year her father and brother are ahead of us and her mother is meeting them where they got off the last time and will resume her hike and Nilla wanted to start over and thru hike the whole thing within a year. Side note - Anthony got to meet Nilla on his short time on the trail - end note. She got her name because she had a bottle of vanilla hand sanitizer explode in her pocket, twice. Anyway so creepy white camping next to me...just talking to this guy creeped me out constantly changing his stories talking about how all these girls are his friends blah enough to make your skin crawl. I wanted to throw him in the river and watch him float away never return but jail isn't an adventure I'm wanting to run into haha. I feel like I'm becoming Nilla's big brother which is pretty cool she reminds me of me at that age a little bit. After creeper leaves we head back to the picnic tables and meet more people and play around with all the thru hiking dogs to many names to remember until around 6 o'clock while drinking some beer it was a blast. Since my breakfast was so big I wasn't hungry again until around 7 o'clock we went back to the restaurant and I ordered a 10" Greek Pizza and it was very good too. It's hard to imagine that one restaurant had so many good items on their menu, Nilla got and loved the fish tacos that used Fresh Trout...yes please!!! After dinner we headed back to the campsite and a bunch of people setup tents near us and were hanging out thanks to us telling them where the free camping was. We made a decent fire and then it started to rain ??. Good night