AT trail days – day 1 – Friday
AT mile 603 while looking really easy to find on a map, is difficult to find in a car with no cell phone signal. After missing the designated meet-up time but finding the right location, I keep driving until cell service is returned and find a message that Nub has departed the mile 603 and that the next meeting point on the trail is Trent’s Grocery at mile 608. Nub and his hiker companion, Shepard, arrive and immediately order a pizza and Shepard has a giant can of beer. They throw most of their clothes into a washing machine and take showers while I make whiskey dark and stormys. I mix another drink for each of us as the clothes are in the dryer. Clean and full, we depart the other 7 hikers waiting for rides and head south to Damascus for trail days.
Our options for the weekend are to camp in the baseball field and surrounding woods with all the other hikers, we assumed incorrectly that all the hostels would be full, a nearby farm that Shepard has friends at, or a Knight’s in motel that I google scouted 9 miles west of Damascus. Both Nub and Shepard immediately choose the hotel option. Hotel was fine but the attached Italian restaurant was the Chef-Boyardee of Italian food. We drove the 9 miles into town to a not as crowded Damascus as we expected. We toured the vendor area, met several trail friends and wound up at the Damascus brewery on the edge of town for beers and table soccer twisty things.
- 3 Holer
Nub's hiking buddy has a blog, too. He actually writes it himself! For more pictures and entries about Nubs adventures on Trail Days, check out http://bikehikesafari.com/2017/05/22/at-day-35-35-trail-days-damascus/ and http://bikehikesafari.com/2017/05/24/at-day-36-back-to-the-trail/
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