May 21 Mile 463

Zero day in Damascus! And we needed it. Both of us pretty tired out from the past week of hiking- perhaps a little too much. My Sweety is coming up to meet us next week and plan on a rather conservative hiking goal over the coming days. Today I went to the local doc for my knee. Thank goodness nothing serious-just too much hiking! Same old ailment-runners knee- and I am very glad. She gave me a short term medicine- a steroid-to help with the inflammation . It started to feel better as the day progressed, even before I took the meds. Hopefully it will be ok tomorrow as we head off again. Very nice town, Damascus. Its called Trail Town USA due to the AT and the Virginia Creeper Trail- an old railroad track that is now a bike trail. Very pretty countryside. Good food and lots of places to resupply. We can have a sandwich made as we hike out tomorrow to eat for lunch. That's heaven to me. Spent a good part of today uploading my journal to this blog. Dont know when I can have access to the internet again, but plan to keep it up as long as I am hiking. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy it.