Our bags are packed and we're ready to go...well not quite yet. But we're a few steps closer to our big hike now...

In prepping for the AT one of our biggest concerns was how to get to the start. After searching every possible flight down, we decided to take the trusty ol Greyhound (woot woot haha) from Detroit to Atlanta. It's a long journey - 16 hours - but luckily it's during the night. And of course the tickets were half the price of the plane tickets - $156.45 in total. So it's booked and we'll be departing April 5th, arriving in Atlanta at 10am April 6th. The next step was getting from the city to the trail, which turned out to be fairly easy to organize thanks to the ATC website. A shuttle will be picking us up right from the Greyhound station and taking us to Springer Mtn. If all goes smoothly we should be on the trail to the Trail (yes, there's an 8 mile hike up to the start of the AT) by 2pm-ish - fingers crossed.

Next was our packs...which we've almost got down to the perfect configuration and weight. So far our pack base weigh is 25lbs each, that's not including food and water. Check out the picture of all we have to carry! Missing from the picture is our tent, towel, and a few other odds and ends.