Date: 2010-06-16
From: Reeds Gap

To: Waynesboro
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: light rain

16 June 2010, Waynesboro   I got up early today because we were supposed to leave this afternoon around noon and I had errands to run. I went to Kroger to get a few things, got a haircut and went to the post office to mail a few things home. At noon Blue Sky had a headache and Bismarck told me she extended her room until 1 pm so she could lie down for a while. We all decided to extend our rooms too. Bismarck came to our room and was hanging out while we waited for Blue Sky. The weather was calling for rain and thunder showers this afternoon. I hate walking in the rain. I told my roommate Seabass that I was thinking of a zero day to help my hip rash that started yesterday (that came from my hip belt and the heat a sweat) to help a little. I told him I had to get a new pack cover because mine was not keeping my pack dry. Around noon or shortly after Blue Sky called our room and said she still had to run to the post office and to Kroger for resupplies. I told her what the weather report called for and that it would not take too much to twist my arm for a zero day. Bismarck was the only one that I had to convince because he had already arrived here the day before us and had already taken a zero day. He said he had spent a lot of money in Waynesboro and needed to get back on the trail. He had just got done renting a plane to update his pilot¢s license so that his license did not expire while he was on the trail. The more I hang around Bismarck the more I am awed at him. He told me he also had his own plane. We all hemmed and hawed about taking a zero day. We all finally agreed to take one.   Seabass and I decided a cook out would be great for a zero day. We went across the street from the motel to Roses and purchased a grill and some briquettes.   I told Bismarck that I needed to go to the outfitter for a new pack cover and we both walked down together. I got some more bug repellent and a pack cover. On the way back we stopped at a gas station to get some gatorade and realized that there was a ice cream place just across the street and decided to go get an ice cream. The lady behind the counter at the gas station heard us and said in a teasing manner that she would take a small chocolate in a cup. We went to Tasty Freeze and got our ice cream and decided to get two small chocolates in a cup for the ladies behind the counter at the gas station. We delivered them and walked back to the room. On the way back we ran into Stick Shift and Fluffy who were on their way to the outfitters.   When we returned to our motel there were bunch of hikers were hanging around the pool and Hook had some beer and offered me one. I sat there socializing for about one hour. There was Hook, G Hippie, Worn Heal, Blue Sky, Superman(2008), Professor, Dancing Wind, Moment. After that I went and laid down for a nap.   After my short lived nap because I was awaken by Indiana who knocked on the door looking for Superman. I just sat around watching TV until Blue Sky came by returning from her trip to Kroger with a watermelon in hand for the cookout. She said she would have bought the steaks if she knew what we wanted. Seabass and Blue Sky went back to Kroger and got the steaks while I started the grill. They came back with corn on the cob, sweat potatoes, rib eye steaks, and shrimp. No one knew how to cook corn on the cob on the grill but I knew how to do it in the microwave. Everyone was amaze at how will it turned out. We had a feast.   We all hung around eating and talking until 8:30 pm. After everyone left Seabass and I cleaned up our room and the area outside. After that I went to CVS to get a tube of travel size toothpaste but they were closed. I went to the gas station down the road to see if they had any but they did not have the travel size. I went to Burger King and got another meal before returning back to the room.   I watched TV trying to fall asleep but when getting in bed I somehow twisted my knee and the pain would not go away. The pain was really bad; I could not even walk to the bathroom. I am so worried that it is something that will take me off the trail. I took some vitamin I, and that seems to have helped a little.