Appalachian Trail

Another remarkably day with an uncommon sight. The McAfees Knob, another popular photo spot along the AT. If not the most scenic one. And we had the pleasure to climb it today :)
When we arrived there we heard a family talk in German so when they greeted us, I greeted them in German. He asked if we're thru hiking the trail and we spend about an hour talking. They are a really lovely family. We exchanged numbers and we're planning to meet when we come by on the AT close to his current home in Pennsylvania. After August they're going back to their home in Heidenheim.
After taking lots of pictures and a scenic lunch we went on to make it as close as possible to Daleville, our next resupply point. On the way to there, we got into another huge downpour with thunderstorm. Just as we went up some rocks we saw a lightning bolt directly in front of us and a split sec later a thunder that our ears were hurting. It was quite scary to go all the way up afterwards... We stopped at around 5:30 to make dinner and get some energy for our night hike into the town. We ate almost all of our food to have a good motivation to make it into town, not to starve :D At the Shelter we saw two guys sleeping and were pretty sure that we knew them, the Floridians. But we haven't seen them in about a month and weren't completely sure, so we let them sleep. Later they caught up to us and it was as we thought, Jacob and Walter. It was really nice meeting them again after that time.
At 7 we shot for the remaining 8 miles into town! And we made it!! Although it was a tough ride and we were close to a breakdown after almost 19 hours. We set up our tent behind a BP gas station so we could charge our devices and went to sleep at 2 in the morning...En savoir plus

After a short night directly next to a roaring air conditioner from the gas station we tore down our tent and went for breakfast and WiFi. We were too lazy to search for a diner and as it was directly across of the supermarket we went to McDonald's. They have a large breakfast plate and although it it was pretty fake, we still enjoyed it :)
After resupply we went to Taco Bell. This was my first time and I actually liked some of their stuff. If you don't expect to get Mexican food there, you'll be fine. Even Julia liked the Shredded Chicken Quesadilla ;)
Then we finally went back to the trail. We wanted to get to an outlook about 16 miles after town but Julia didn't feel well, so we stopped 2.5 miles earlier.

1/3 of the AT down! It's crazy how the time flies. About now Christi would've needed to go and we're even not that far behind the initial schedule.En savoir plus