Date: 2019-05-04
From: Uncle JohnnyÃÂÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs/Super 8

To: Super 8
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: light rain

Zero day! I remember back when I was so opposed to zeros, but now I¢m a big fan of them. My toes were really hurting me, especially my pinkies. I had a callous on each pinky toe and it just hurt to walk on them. I cut the callouses off last night and aired my feet out with light socks. Today there was a festival in town. It was pretty awesome, even for a small town like Erwin. Prometheus and I were not saying much to each other. We had talked last night and I tried to address the issue then, but we just weren¢t on the same page and no resolution could be found right now. He headed out before I did and I had breakfast at the hotel. They had bagels and donuts and a waffle iron, so there were some nice options. I walked over to town after. The same place where the chili cookoff had been now had pancakes. I had one, but was pretty full. I ran into Prometheus and Hot Sauce. One of the booths had these huge inflatable bags and we lay in them, which was fun. Hot Sauce got a white blaze painted on her arm and I later did too. We met up with Heather too. There was a masseuse there and Hot Sauce and Prometheus got massages. We all walked down through the tents and got some ¢tators¢. I¢ve never had tators before, but they were good! It¢s basically french fries, but there are onions and other things in them. I got homemade ice cream from one of the booths, which was delicious. We all went to the Outfitter to do foot baths. They had Epsom salts and were offering hot foot baths. There were doctors there and they were super friendly, giving us some creams and bandaids to go. After that, Hot Sauce and Heather went to Taco Bell and Prometheus and I stayed at the Outfitter. Their selection was pretty limited. There were no big packs that I could try on just to see if I liked a lighter one. Prometheus bought a new headband and sticker. I love stickers and I regret not buying more of them on the trail so far. Prometheus and I headed to Taco Bell to meet up with Heather and Hot Sauce. I¢ve never been to Taco Bell, and I didn¢t get anything since I had the tators. I wanted to go back to get a white blaze painted on my arm and check out some of the other stands, so I left to go do that. I called my friend Rachel from home because I haven¢t caught up with her in a while. That was so nice. I miss her so much. We¢ve been friends since high school and she¢s been my rock through all the ups and downs of growing up. I got my white blaze on my arm and bought a pizza for later from one of the vendors. They had a brick oven attached to their truck. Prometheus texted and said he had called a shuttle to Walmart, since we didn¢t have enough time to shop there before. I headed back to the hotel and met him, and we caught the shuttle. We spent a long time in Walmart. I never need to resupply since I do mail drops, but sometimes I eat through my candy quickly or want something like Doritos, which are hard to pack out. I basically just wanted a few hotel snacks. I got a soda and some Little Debbies. I also got new inserts for my shoes. I had mentioned before that my Superfeet were not really working and that I was getting bad blisters from them, so I wanted to try something else. We got all our stuff and headed back to the hotel. Prometheus put on some TV and we hung out. He put on The Avengers. I¢ve never seen any of the Marvel movies; it¢s not really a trend I followed along with. I think I¢ve seen Thor, but I don¢t even know the connection of them all. I actually liked whatever was on TV and was hooked. Prometheus took a shower and made a phone call and I hung out and tried to blog. It was hard to focus and I was emotionally kind of having a hard time given the struggles I had had with him recently. I left the room and tried to blog in the hallway and process through it all and when I got back he was asleep. We had tried to talk again earlier, but again there was no resolution. I headed to bed and slept well. It was nice to have a zero day, even though I spent the whole day walking around and shopping. It was nice to veg out in front of the TV for a bit; it has been so long since I¢ve watched anything! Little Debbie