Day 19 & 20

Helloooo I'm going to sum this up pretty quick!  We are super tired Lol did back to back 18 plus mile days! 

First day we hiked out of the smokies and into a couple other parks one called Cherokee and I can't remember other but we bounced back and forth between the 2.   On the first day we had lots lots and lots of elevation.  We had over 11 miles that was up hill... No fun.... We werent going to do 18 on first day but we decided to because we wanted to get into Hot Springs North Carolina sooner which is a town so had more time to hang here. The highlight of all the elevation was a spot called max patch.  3 huge hill tops that don't grow any trees with wonderful 360 views. I say hills but they are really mountians just smaller then ones around here lol.  After we hung out at max patch awhile we had just under 3 miles to camp and Kayla was up front leading us!  So we are hiking along and the trail seemed different . as in it didn't look as worn as it usually does and as we are walking north ever 1/10 mile or so we pass a white blaze on trees or rocks.  They are just a 6 by 2 inch white paint mark. But anywayyyy we are walking along with our buddy bandit and we noticed we haven't seen a white blaze for awhile.  Welllllll just so happened to be our leader Kayla got us lost and lead us down the wrong trail we def enjoyed our 1 mile detour haha I'm not letting her live this down ha.

Today was just like yesterday but hotter haha 18 miles of up and down all day. We were going to do 15 miles and call it a day and then do 3 miles in morn and go into hot springs but we got to our 15 mile by 230 so we decided to go for extra 3 and get into town. We made pretty quick and our bodies feel pretty good def better then they did 2 weeks ago. When we got into town we got a room at a nice little hostel. Think of it as a really big country house with lots of hikers staying at it. First thing we did was take showers haha then all of us went into town and by town I mean 600 people population haha so not very big and went to local diner and we all destroyed some food!! Of course I had French fries and Kayla had a salad haha and candy from store right by diner.  We experience our first run in with someone being rude to us because we are hikers. A local in the diner our buddy who is having real bad allergies to stop sneezing and go eat outside Lol she was being real mean about and of course everyone heard and was staring at us Lol we just blew it off and kept stuffing our face Lol now we are hanging out at hostel eating more food and kicking it with 10 plus hikers.  Good times! Going to call it a night soon.

O we wanted to share some truth about the trail. Its not always all glamorous as we make it sound and most of time we leave this stuff out. The trail is amazing , really is but everyday something hurts on your body Lol like bad.  We are always hurting lol we always say if its not one thing its another haha

Here is list if problems we had so far.  Some are everyday some come and go.
Shoulder pain, back back, lower back pain, headache, neck pain, bug bites bug bites bug bites, bee stings,  spider bites, chaffing , heat rash, falling falling falling, blisters, most of our pain is in legs,  like Achilles, calf's, ankles, hip flexors, bottom of your feet, bug bites, stoved toes, shin splints,  we are always dirty snd sweaty and our biggest is prob knee pain lol so please dont think we are all peachy we hurt a lot but we are loving it!  Besides bug bites Lol

But i still have some stuff to do before I fall asleep.  Night everyone