Day 38 Zero Day No 4 - Damascus

Today's miles 0.  AT miles 467.6

We had a great breakfast this morning, we wandered over to Mojoe's Trail side Coffee House.  Iron Man and Extra Miles were in there already so we joined them.  Nigel had to try an English Joe, an English muffin with egg, cheese and bacon and I had blueberry pancakes with syrup.  The pancakes serving was huge, 4 large pancakes with big juicy blueberries, Nigel had one of them, they were absolutely delicious though.

After breakfast we did our next four days food resupply, a couple of Mountain House meals from the outfitters and the remainder from Dollar General.  We bumped into Trish and Jesse in the street and had a quick chat, it was good to see them, albeit briefly, we'd not seen them since the Smokies. 

We returned to the Hikers Inn to sort and repack all our trail food.  The Germans were moving out of the bunk room and up into the house area where we, Iron Man & Extra Miles are staying, nicer rooms, a little bit more expensive but worth it.  Its a fantastic hostel, the owners Lee and Paul are very friendly, we highly recommend it. We also got our AT passport stamped.  I forgot to say yesterday the Blue Blaze cafe also has an AT stamp although it's not listed if anyone's behind us is collecting them too.

By 1pm we were hungry again, we tried Pork Bellies BBQ for lunch, another great newly opened food place we would recommend.  The Saturday special was fried catfish, fries and hush puppies (a bit like a small fried onion donut ball) so we shared that with a basket of BBQ ribs. Both were delicious and it was like having English 'fish and chips'!  After all that food it was time for an afternoon nap. Nigel and the boys had a beer on the porch.  The rain also came down heavy this afternoon as forecast so glad we got our shopping done in the morning.

We went back to Pork Bellies again in the evening for dinner, the Germans, Iron Man and Extra Miles wanted to try it out.  We didn't mind returning the food was really delicious again and their BBQ sauces were amazing.  Paul the hostel owner kindly drove us over there in his truck as it was still raining heavily. Another great evening had by all.

Tomorrow we head for the Grayson Highlands, we've been looking forward to this section of the trail.  The weather forecast is good for the next five days too, cold tomorrow but then getting a lot warmer and sunnier again.