Wednesday, 5\/6<\/p>\n
AT Miles = 0 \/ 625.9
\nOther Miles = 0 \/ 25.4
\nTotal Miles = 0 \/ 651.3<\/p>\n
I took a zero day in Pearisburg today. My left foot is really a mess.
\nIt felt okay this morning when I walked in my sandals a couple blocks
\ndown the street to get breakfast, and then a couple more blocks to the
\nlaundromat. But by the time I got back to my motel it was hurting and
\nI was limping.<\/p>\n
It was cool and overcast this morning, but I went out wearing the
\nrunning shorts and shirt Jodi sent along with my other warm weather
\ngear, since all my other clothes were destined for the washer and
\ndryer at the laundromat. I imagine I looked like a moron walking down
\nthe street dressed like that; it certainly felt inappropriate for the
\nweather conditions.<\/p>\n
Observation: It is amazing just how nasty my socks smell after a week
\nof alternating two pair of soggy socks in my boots!<\/p>\n
I find town days exhausting. I’m not quite sure why that is. I had a
\nlarge pizza for dinner last night. When I called to order it I asked
\nfor a 20 oz bottle of root beer, as root beer has no caffeine. Well,
\nthey didn’t have any root beer so I settle for Pepsi. Big mistake! all
\nthat caffeine had me awake until nearly 2:00 this morning. Just the
\nsame, I was awake at 6:30.<\/p>\n
After doing my laundry I stopped by the post office again. Back last
\nNovember I ordered the full set of maps and guidebooks for the trail
\nfrom the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC). They shipped most of
\nthem back in January or February, but the ventral Virginia and Vermont
\n\/ New Hampshire sets were delayed until later. Well, I’m in Virginia
\nnow and I need those central Virginia maps. A couple weeks ago I sent
\nthem an email asking them to send the Virginia maps to me here. I
\nnever got any response to that email so last Thursday while I was
\nstaying at the motel in Atkins I called them. Well, they claimed
\nignorance of my email ((what’s the point of publishing an email
\naddress if you don’t monitor it), and told me the Virginia maps were
\nready but the guidebook was still not printed. I asked them to send
\nthe maps to me here and send the guidebook, which I don’t use and
\ndon’t really care about, to my home address whenever it’s ready. They
\nagreed and I expected the maps when I picked up my other mail
\ntomorrow. The maps weren’t at the post office yesterday and I stopped
\nby this morning to see if they had yet arrived. Alas, they had not. I
\nshould have called the ATC today but got distracted with other chores
\nand before I knew it, it was too late.<\/p>\n
I did handle some issues with my credit card today. It’s amazing how http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/affreeman1959\/ATDamascusVAToPearisburgVA#<\/a><\/p>\n I spent a good part of the day struggling to remotely connect to my Well, I spent hours googling this and that and reading a lot of So suddenly the day is pretty much done. I still haven’t gone through Since I have all this time to think and write tonight, here are a Yesterday morning, while hiking in the rain, I stopped to pee. I was Oh, one more thing. I don’t remember if I mentioned this before or — Wednesday, 5\/6 AT Miles = 0 \/ 625.9 Other Miles = 0 \/ 25.4 Total Miles = 0 \/ 651.3 I took a zero day in Pearisburg today. My left foot is really a mess. It felt okay this morning when I walked in my sandals a couple blocks down the street to get breakfast, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at_thru_hike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmuch time little chores like this can eat up. I also did some work
\nupdating the website for the hiking club I belong to, the Connecticut
\nSection of the GMC — www.conngmc.com<\/a> –, with the latest newsletter
\nand activity schedule. I also posted my latest photos to my website.
\nThe link is:<\/p>\n
\ncomputers at home. It seems Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom,
\nactually broke one of their products with an update to another of
\ntheir own products! In order to remotely connect thru their WHS server
\nan RDP client add-on for IE is required. But when Microsoft released
\nWinXP SP3, they actually disabled that very add-on. Since the little
\nNetbook I bought came with XP SP3, it is impossible to connect to my
\nWHS box from this computer.<\/p>\n
\ndiscussions of this problem, and finally discovered that if I
\nuninstalled IE7 and reverted to IE6 (IE7 is actually just an update to
\nIE6, so if you uninstall IE7 you ‘magically’ find yourself with IE6),
\nthe RDP add=on will be visible and can be enabled. Whew! So long story
\nshort I finally was able to connect to my home network and get all
\nthat work done that I mentioned before.<\/p>\n
\nthe food resupply that Jodi sent me to figure out if I need to do any
\nshopping to supplement it or not. I’ll do that first thing in the
\nmorning. Since it’s ben raining all afternoon, I put my boots on to
\nwalk around the corner to Dairy Queen to get a couple of cheeseburgers
\nand etc for lunch, and found myself limping the entire way there and
\nback. There is no way I am hiking out of town tomorrow. I think I will
\nget my stuff organized tomorrow so I can send a box of stuff (my cold
\nweather sleeping bag and my heavy, warm, clothing) home tomorrow, then
\nI might check out of the motel and walk the couple of miles over to
\nthe hostel at the Catholic church. Or maybe I’ll be lazy and just stay
\nhere. It is nice to have my own room and my own shower that I don’t
\nhave to share with a couple dozen other people.<\/p>\n
\ncouple of little stories from the trail. I few days ago I was hiking
\nalong in the morning and apparently there was a bird sitting on the
\nground next to the trail. I had actually walked by he or she but when
\nI was swinging my trekking pole forward I must have nearly struck the
\nbird with the end of my right pole. The bird exploded out of the
\nundergrowth and flew right between my legs. Of course this all
\nhappened in an instant and I had n for a whileo idea what it was; I
\njust heard, saw, and felt something exploding between my legs. I
\njumped straight up into the air, which is quite a feat while wearing a
\nbackpack. Once I realized it was just a bird, and the first rush of
\nadrenaline faded a bit, I stood and laughed a hearty belly laugh for a
\nfew minutes.<\/p>\n
\npreoccupied with what I was doing when I looked down and noticed that
\nthe base of the tree I was peeing on was moving. Looking closer, I saw
\na mass of what must have been a couple hundred earth worms, just your
\neveryday common earth worms, assembled at the base of the tree. I’ve
\nnever seen or heard of earth worms behaving like this. I didn’t take a
\npicture because after peeing on the poor worms I felt I had already
\nexploited them enough, so I left them alone to do whatever they were
\ndoing in the rain.<\/p>\n
\nnot, but I passed the 600 mile mark a couple of days ago. In the last
\nseven days getting into town here in Pearisburg, I’ve hiked more than
\n120 miles. My legs can do that fine, but I think my feet need me to
\ncut down the miles a little bit. I think I am going to try to hold
\nmyself to 16 – 18 miles per day.<\/p>\n
\n~~~~~
\nAllen F. Freeman
\nallen@allenf.com<\/a>
\nwww.allenf.com<\/a>
\nallenf.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"