Day 5

Footloose decided to head to town this morning because he was feeling really bad and needed some relax time to get himself healthy again.
So JD and I headed down the trail. We came across the trail magic place we heard about the day before and realized it was a lot closer to where we camped than we expected. We were a bit dissapointed that we missread the maps due to the fact that we could have a nice dinner if we would have hiked just a little bit further. We were able to get some hot breakfast however which was amazing! We had eggs, potatoes and spiral ham. This was just the boost we needed.
We went on to hike a bit further than we planned to today and went all the way to the road to Haiwassee, 15 miles down the trail. We were not able to get a shuttle so we had to hitch a ride. This is the first time either of us have done this. After about an hour and a half someone coming from town pulled into the parking lot. Seasdog and his wife were bring another hiker back to the trail on there way out of town and decided they would go back and take us to town since there were no more shuttles coming and we had already been trying to hitch for an hour and a half with no success, a lot of people waving at us and giving us thumbs up. Seadog and his wife were great, as soon as they pulled up they gave us an ice cold beer.
We got to motel and it was already filled with thru hikers. Once we set our bags in the room we heard, "hey we're driving to a buffet down the road if anyone wants to come." Naturally JD and I looked at each other and said, "yeah we're in!" Six big hikers piled into a a little honda civic and pulled into the buffet. At the buffet I had 4 whole fried hicken winges, a rack of ribs, about a half pound of mashed potatoes, some corn on the cob and a piece of chocolate cake. Even all this just felt like how I feel when I eat a cheeseburger and fries when im at home.
After dinner we decided to walk back to the motel and get some beer on the way home. When we got back we just sat on the porch of the motel with a handful of other hikers just chatting about, drinking and relaxing.
I just headed into bed a little while ago and found out it was a really good idea we decided to come into town today. It is pooring outside right now.
We are going to take a zero mileage day tomorrow and let our bodies rejuvinate a bit so we don't wear ourselves down and get injured. We'll be back on the trail Saturday morning. We'll have our phones on tomorrow if anyone wants to text us. If you want to call and chat call us after 9pm so that our minutes don't run, if you just want to give us a quick "hi" durring the day that would be ok though.
Have a great night everyone!
-Turbo