Making the Most of "Down Time"

AT symbol in the sidewalks.

Woke up this morning to the sound of a nicely progressing rainstorm. Not exactly music to your ears when you're planning on being outside all day. Checked the weather forecast and it was not promising at all, predicting rainstorms all day. Since we'd just spent the past day and a half wet and miserable, we decided to give Mother Nature a little while to calm down, and we drove from Pigeon Forge to our next "trail town." It's a really remote little place, but definitely a "hiker's town." The official AT even passes right down the center of it. The weather didn't exactly seem to want to cooperate at all, so Daddy and I walked the mile or so of trail through town (no zero days yet!) and we got settled into our RV site for the night.

There's even cute things like a caboose.

Later in the afternoon, things still looked stormy but the worst of the weather stopped. I took the rest of the afternoon to work on medical school applications and have a little rest and relaxation. Every thru-hiker needs some of that from time to time. So we definitely made the most of our stormy, dreary day. For your amusement, the following is a picture depicting the incredibly strenuous afternoon I had.

Whitewater tubing?

Fun times. Lots of walking to do in the next few days, provided this little spell tones itself down just a bit. I wish I could just tube down the AT. Then at least I wouldn't mind being wet...