Dead / New Kicks

Layed up short yesterday - storm supposed to roll in - and you know how I love to nero into town. Nice little 4.5 miler to The Relax Inn. Picked up a new shirt, and new shoes that I had ordered a bit ago. Here are the dead ones - made it 535 miles in them, have several tears in them, burns from too close to a fire in the Smokies, and tread is starting to come off. I'll miss them - but my knees called - and they wanted new ones. Here are the new kicks as well - kinda forgot what they looked like. Going to have to get new pants and shorts soon - weight is really starting to drop off of me now - maybe at Trail Days. Rained all day today - PERFECT use of a nero. Going to go ahead and switch out my 10 degree bag for a lighter 35 degree bag as well - keeping wool long johns for a few more weeks - huge storm that came through dropped us down to the 40's again. Will pass the 25% mark tomorrow! (545 miles) - HUGE accomplishment for me - seems like I was just at Springer yesterday. Going to go as far as I can then hitch back to Trail Days - and might stay a few more days for Hardcore. Only 1,000 people in town, but Trail Days brings in 2,000 hikers and with only 4 computers in town at the library - not assuming I will be able to update anything for a bit. Hope to get pictures of all my friends - really miss everyone - hiking alone is great - but nice to see friends at the end of the day. I'm not exactly introverted. Might have to slow up at some point to save myself mentally - or get some of them to speed up. Peace for now - might be 2 weeks before you hear from me again.