Nick and Mel no longer...

One week has officially passed us by! One week of walking, walking, walking, eating and sleeping in the great outdoors! The week has been filled with so many highs and fortunately very few lows! How lucky we feel!

The greyhound to Atlanta was entertaining, to say the least. We were serenaded by no less then three rap shows, and once we reached Atlanta we were shown around by a kind homeless man named "gateway". Shortly after we met up with Hotrock, our first trail angle. He gave us a ride to Amicolola and gifted us our first snickers bar of the trail! YUM.

As soon as we hit the trail we started meeting all the fantastic people we will be seeing for the next six months. Some people, like Arrow Maker, Keystone, and Mr.Natural (aka salad dressing) we keep the same pace with and camp with every night. Others like Raisins, Lost and Found, Fling, John Wayne and many others we run into at unexpected times. Nighttime is hilarious, filled with exhausted people who find the silliest things a riot.

When I say we are Nick and Mel no longer I am somewhat eluding to the changes that are guaranteed to happen to us out here, but for now I am more referring to our new names. Nick = low expectations and Mel = metric.

I am already in love with this trail. There is so much to say but we must get back to walking. Hopefully on our next stop in town we will have more time to update the blog and put some pictures on!