We leave early and cover the ten miles in 4 hours, moving quickly down hill. We are very proud of ourselves for moving so fast. The edge of Damascus still has the tents up and the fast food stalls from the Trail Days which finished yesterday. Flyboy approaches a burger stall which is packing up and they give him a free cold burger to eat - he is chuffed. Only been on the trail for 3 days and he is already starving.
A momentous day as we cross the state border from Tennessee into Virginia. We are going to hike more than 500 miles in Virginia. It is raining all morning and the photo is very misty, but I will put it in anyway.
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| Tennessee - Virginia State border |
We hike quickly down the main street looking for the Hikers Inn, where we have booked a room. Suzanne, the host, greets us and we are shown to an upstairs front room with a king size bed, overlooking the main street of the small town. We are thrilled.
Suzanne drives us to the edge of town to the local restaurant called 'The Whistlepig' where we eat burgers and then cross the road to the ice-cream parlour, and share the 'hiker's special'.
We run into Stickbuilt and Tater Chip in the main street. They are staying at apartments with their wives about 50 m away from us.
We have dinner at Dot's Inn - steak and chips - but it is not very salubrious.
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