Triple Zero

After my arrival in Erwin I decided to take advantage of town comforts and ice.  On my first zero I took the 8:30 am shuttle to Huddle House for breakfast (a southern chain).  On my return I saw that the terrible five had gotten to Uncle Johnny’s and were settling in for the day. Only a few hours later (12:30) the lunch shuttle took us to an all you can eat pizza buffet for lunch for only 7 dollars!  I did some laundry that afternoon while icing my shin waiting to go for my second time on the dinner shuttle to drink more margaritas at the Mexican restaurant.  I was also reunited with some friends from the Smokies (Ham Fist  and Big Bird).

I took a second zero in Erwin and the next day the terrible five left in the afternoon.  I ate mostly leftovers from my shopping trip that day and hung out at a beach on the river. I again iced my leg several times and stretched out hoping my leg would get better.  I also got a new trail name (one which I have decided to let go of after a week).  One of the hostel workers Jeff was joking that I was being a pain for asking for ice so he said my name should be Two Pains cuz I had pain in my leg and I was a pain in the ***.   I think Robi Dobi is better don’t you?

I was going to leave the next day and packed my stuff.  I went to Bojangles on the breakfast shuttle just because it sounded like a good idea (it was).  I was going to leave sometime later that day until I though taking one last zero, to make it the magical healing number three, wouldn’t do any harm.   So I went to the pizza buffet again and iced my leg one last day.

The next day I finally left, but that will be in my next blog!