y'all, we are less than 4 miles from Tennessee tonight! we arrived in Damascus, VA (home of the legendary Trail Days) and are staying at the "lazy fox inn." the owner is the cutest 88 year old woman in the world, Miss Ginny (short for Virginia). she runs the place by herself and tells me that she is gonna keep taking care of these hikers despite her sons telling her to relax.
We stayed with my friend Christina's parents Saturday and Sunday night in Marion, VA. such a good break with lots of wonderful food! I think they were appalled at the amount of coca cola we drank!
one of the highlights this week was seeing in the wild ponies in the Grayson Highlands. we didn't see any for the first few miles and then BAM! there they were grazing in the grass! only 2 of them were brave enough to approach us, and one of them was particularly courageous and tried to get into Tony's pack!
also, we visited the one room lindamood schoolhouse. on the wall were the school "rules" and the amount of lashes one would receive for breaking the rules. for example, "going about the barn or doing any mischief about the place" would warrant 7 lashes, etc. we decided tony would be up to about 100 lashes a day if he were an 1800's schoolboy.
Morgan and Jesse are coming to get us the 22nd so we have 15 days until we are rescued for Christmas! hopefully at that point we'll have less than 200 miles waiting on us when we return.
we haven't seen many hikers in the past couple weeks. mostly everyone we know has either quit or skipped
way ahead to finish sooner or are yellowblazing like crazy. we are still trying to be "purists" until the end.
the one hiker we did see told us (quite cockily) "I'm actually doing a 30 mile section so I'm gonna be out here quite a while." Oh really? Us too. But we didn't say a thing, just went on our way.
1717/2184 complete! {78.6%}
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