Date: 2018-09-08
From: Pearisburg, VA

To: Pearisburg, VA
Miles today: 0.0

Okay so I¢m taking another zero in Pearisburg. I swear to Jesus H Christ I am getting back on trail tomorrow and hiking away from Pearisburg for good. If for some insane reason I don¢t, you have every right to call me and ask what the fuck I¢m doing. Lol Obviously, me and this Acadicus dude have just really hit it off and I¢m riding this wave for as long as it can last. Haha He promises to drive me back to where I left off tomorrow. Says he doesn¢t want to ¢play a part in me not finishing me hike¢. LOL! WHAT! I told him not to flatter himself because that¢s definitely NOT happening. ALSO, guess who caught up to me?? Production! Like one of the only sobo flipfloppers I¢ve met in the south. Lol Hadn¢t seen him since The Shenandoahs. It was fun catching up with him. He was relieved to see that he wasn¢t the only one having a hard time moving through Virginia. We both agreed that Virginia was hella easy, but the mental hike was kicking our asses. Lol He¢s staying here tonight and zeroing tomorrow. Tonight at dinner is me, Acadicus, Production, Mule, a couple sectioners, Whip, and The Tramp. Whip is an original SoBo here all the way from Maine. He¢s a cheesy, funny guy. It seems like the longer I stay here, the more new faces I¢m seeing. The Tramp is a really cool dude. There was a Lady, but there in the middle of working out stuff.. Lol. He¢s staying here on Work-For-Stay for an unbeknownst amount of time. He¢s done most of the trail with his Lady, but they got off recently because she didn¢t wanna hike anymore and he¢s taking time to decide whether or not to finish it without her. She went home to Florida and he didn¢t wanna be that far from the trail, hence the WFS at the hostel. I thought he was super cool for two reasons. One, he bought this van for $2,500, gutted the whole inside, and built/installed a bed, tv, cabinets, fans, batteries, and a pull-out grill. He¢s now living out of the van with his two dogs and traveling down the AT. I was in awe. It was so fascinating and gives me so many ideas. Like the amount of freedom he has, just wow! Lol And Two, tonight he cooked all of us dinner! It was a veggie stir fry with rice and chicken. And he told me he cooked the veggies and the chicken separately just for me. :) LolYou know what¢s more annoying than vegans who always talk about being vegan?? People that deliberately go out of their way to start arguments with vegans!! Acadicus went and opened Pandora¢s box today and for no good reason. We got in a heated debate about the dairy industry, evolution, animal ethics, blah blah blah the whole shebang! My patience hadn¢t been this tested in AWHILE. For a moment, I regretted coming back and wished I wasn¢t so far from the trail. I could tell he was almost deliberately pushing my buttons. I was sweating I was so angry. And the whole time, Production sat in the corner of the room, silent and a little scared. Lol Eventually, I dismissed myself and told him I needed to go decompress because everything else I had left to say was just insulting and violent... Shots were fired, but they were all surface wounds, fortunately. After I made Acadicus admit he was an asshole, we made up. So all is well. Lol I¢m glad I¢ve learned how to hang out with people I disagree with. #AdultingTonight all the stoners are hanging out in Acadicus¢s camper. I¢m just here by association. Lol The Tramp passed me the bong and I just laughed, ¢I don¢t even know how to use this!¢ Haha Everyone always gets SO surprised when I say I don¢t smoke. And they ALWAYS seem to tell me that I look like someone who would smoke. Lol There¢s something about the veganism, tattoos, piercings, cut off sleeves, 100+ days on trail look that just screams pothead I guess.