Erwin...

Here I sit, typing at a computer at the Erwin Library in Erwin, Tennessee, digesting a burrito from the Erwin Burrito Factory...contented, with new shoes that hopefully will allow me to walk through the mountains with less discomfort.

It's been 350 miles, I've covered a good deal of ground, literally, but have so much more to cover. As I consider the distance I've walked in context with how much more there is to go, I wonder how in the world I will make it.

Puzzling...

But tomorrow, I will plod on, undaunted, with 3 more days of food and water, with temps in the high 80s as I head toward Roan Mountain and Virginia, just 130 miles farther north.

I am humbled by the journey so far. I don't know if I have learned any particularly important life lessons, but I have learned some little ones. But, like ounces add up to pounds in one's backpack, little lessons will add up to big ones, I am hoping.

I will update my blog a little more in a week or so. The past couple weeks have been very introspective ones for me as I deal with the mental challenges of the trail.

Thank you all for following along...

"Muddyshoes"