Slept well last night. The cough pill did its job. Woke up when the 4 AM train went through Erwin. Several trains pass through each day.
Holiday Inn serves a good breakfast and I saw Tex, the retired chemical engineer from Houston, TX. He hiked out today with his buddy.
After breakfast I asked the woman at the desk about a pharmacy that I could walk to for Sudafed. She gave me shuttle info. I went to the computer to work on my journal. When she finished her shift , she came up to me and said she was going to Walmart and she would take me and bring me back to the hotel. Incredible. What a sweet trail angel. Her name is Kathy and I really enjoyed talking with her during the drive to and from. We are the same age and both went to work in D C after high school graduation. I am amazed that God continues to inspire people to help me. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Kathy, for your kindness.
I am feeling better and will slack pack (take only food, water and maybe rain jacket). I will be driven North by a shuttle driver and I will walk back to Erwin to spend another night at the hotel.
Nunc Coepi "Now I Begin" -- "what was is past, what will be is hidden in the future, and it is only now--this day, this moment--that counts. We can begin fresh each morning if we decide to live our lives that way. The miracle isn't that the chance is there; it always has been there. The miracle is what happens when we reach out to embrace it." From the book Believing in Myself by Earnie Larsen & Carol Hegarty.



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