Date: 2003-04-25
From: Standing Bear Farm

To: No where on the trail!
Miles today: 0.0

Start Standing Bear Farmdestination No where on the trailMaria ,the other partner of the hostel shuttles me into the big city of Newport,Tenessee.I have picked out a Dr.Modglin out of the phone book to see me today.Someone asks me how I knew to pick him.I said I prayed about it.After filling out the usual paperwork,I am handed at least 4 pages of paper work to keep with me.I explain to the receptionist that I am hiking to Maine and I really do not want to carry all that paper.She stares at me with a blank look.I insist that she throw the paper away,and she is shocked that I really do not want to take the papers with me. Dr.Modglin is a younger doctor,well compared to me ,he is younger.He calls my chiroprator back in Pensacola to check about what kind of adjustments I usually get.My doctor fills him in on my hip problem,and tells Dr.Modglin to tell me I had better keep walking or else.By the time I get out of there,Ihave been adjusted form my head to my feet.I have never had my feet worked on,and I must say I really did enjoy that.He also did a great job adjusting my neck. Dr.Brennan,are you paying attention? Since my supply of Biofreeze is getting low, he resupplies me and wishes me the best of luck on my hike. He also reminds me, that if I fall again,do not wait too long to get readjusted. He gets his doctors directory and tries to find me a doctor in the next town I am going to.There are none listed.I tell him thanks,but I fully expect my chiropractor to be there!!Maria and I grab lunch and make a quick run to Walmart before we head back to the hostel, where everyone is anxiously waiting for my news.The good news is I am straightened out again. Well,as much as possible.The bad news is I cannot hike today. Rest,ice,take it easy is my agenda. I willingly accept this, because I want to hike to Maine,and still have my knees left.I spend the rest of the day, just taking it easy.Then I manage to weedle all of the hikers a ride back into town for a Mexican meal and a trip to Walmart. I am the designated driver.It has been a month since I have driven a car. It seems as though we are speeding down the interstate. Our trip to Walmart results in more stimulation than we can stand. I have been to Walmart twice today and both times got out of there not spending hardly anything. It is amazing what you realize you don't really need if you have to carry it on your back.Back at the hostel, we all scarf down strawberry shortcake I had made earlier in the day. Several times I heard it said, "It don't get no better than this". I also met a hiker that had been on the internet hiking list. Footslogger is his name. All the time we were on the list,I thought he was a guy, me and several other people. While at Neel's Gap however we saw his picture in the hiker's book and was surprized to see he was a she. It was a long discussion about how we could have been wrong. Well, today I met him at the hostel and he is a he, but he does wear a kilt. We all had a good laugh over this. There is a female footslogger out on the trail just in front of us. Hopefully at trail days we can meet her.Today was a bright sunshiny day,and no hiking did I do. Shucks.I am sore by evening, so I take my vitamin I(ibuprophen) and call it a day.total miles 0