[If you look very closely, you'll see a tiny blue speck in the center of the picture. That's Samwise, a vegan from NY, hiking the trail about a mile outside of Boiling Springs.]
It was also a day where I had no need at all for any of the food in my pack. I did breakfast [ham, egg and cheese sandwich and coffee] at the Pine Grove Furnace store, lunch [2 birch beer sodas, ice cream bar, hunk of sharp chedder cheese] at a grocery/deli .2 miles off the trail later and dinner [grilled trout sandwich and onion rings] at the Boiling Springs Tavern.
I camped out in the yard of "Lawyer Mark," a man in the upscale but tiny town of 2,500 who, along with his wife, the regional Appalachian Trail Conservancy office said lets thru hikers use his yard for free. I camped in my tarp along with a yard full of the same peeps I camped with the night before: Samwise, Squeegie, Sunbeam and Half Moon [two engaged MU alumni from Ohio], the Twins and their two friends and Mississippi, plus Early Bear and Underground. The twins and their friends actually slept in a tiny playhouse in the yard, which was really a glorified shed.
We were sitting around in the yard when a camera flash emitted from a window in the house next door. Eventually an elderly woman revealed herself on a second floor balcony and photographed us in the open and asked our plans etc. After drinks and dinner at the tavern, Mississippi looked at his watch, declared hiker's midnight, and it was time to turn in.
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