We meet up with Paradise at the Laundromat and then the three of us retire for lunch to the bookshop/cafe called 'Stone Soup' and drink a bottle of merlot with lunch. Excellent way to spend the middle of the day.
We pack up a lot of stuff and send one package home to Australia and one package to Sandy and Stickbuilt in Washington DC which had the 'warm' sleeping bag. It is so hot at night that we don't need it. Digby buys a light summer bag and I get his - and we are both happy and thermostatically controlled quite nicely.
We relax on the balcony of the B&B, read books, pack up our hiking food and then at dinner time we head back to the Chinese buffet at The Ming Garden. Tonight there is new batch of hikers, just arrived. Wallflower, Spoonz, Fluffy, Stickshift, Professor, Sabbath Keeper and Baltimore Jack - we had met them all, earlier on the walk. Worn Heel is not there - we know he is due to complete his section hike here in the next few days and we regret that we won't see him again. Little did we know........
We stay up late reading in bed - such a luxury to read a book, as we dont carry books in the pack as they are too heavy and a luxury that was ditched about Day 5.
We have a great brekkie at the B&B in the grand dining room, including several hikers - Dumpster Bear and Mountain Tattoo who we have been walking with over the last week.
Writing this entry, I am amazed that we did not use the camera for the whole time we were in Waynesboro - it was such a photographic neighbourhood where we were staying. Lovely grand homes - all timber with porches and American flagpoles and garden beds - just like in the movies.
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