Roadtrip Begins!

Around noon today Cristy arrived and we both screamed and hugged each other for a while before we got in her car and started our road trip. We drove on the Blue Ridge Parkway and decided to do some hiking (gawd). We paid $5 to hike up what was supposed to be a 3 mile hike up Grandfather Mountain. After three hours and rock climbing it occurred to me that the 3 mile hike was probably just to a different trail head we had passed a while ago. We had taken the 'profile' trail, which brought us to a neat spot where you could see a rock outcrop that looked like the profile of someones face. It was 7:30 and we needed to bust it down this mountain to be out before dark. I hadn't brought my headlamp or anything really that would help this situation. We made it back to the car just as the last bits of sunlight disappeared. We drove to Boone, North Carolina and got a room for the night that advertised, "One bed, two people, $29.95". It was perfect. It was a great first day of hiking, non-hiking adventure. It was great to see my chicken!