Hot Springs, NC
6 May 2006, Saturday ~ 15 miles
I'm staying at the Sunnybank Inn and sharing a room with the Librarian (a thru-hiker). She really is carrying a pile of books.
When I first got here, Elmer sent me up to the attic over the utility room hanging off the back of the house and said dinner was sold out. Then, two people left for the Alpine Motel, as they didn't really like the Sunnybank. So, I will be having the legendary food, dinner and breakfast.
This place is very nice, and if I needed something to read (I don't), I'd be all set -- there are books everywhere. Elmer is very nice and it's worth the pittance he gets from hikers, but I kind of understand why those women left. It's very...hippie in here. It's very B&B, and there's a reason I don't stay at B&Bs. I always feel an eensy bit tense and out of place.
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I had a hard time keeping a straight face during the dinner discussion. It was all "what kind of plant would you be" and their guest (a wild foraging teacher) was going on about how stimulating it is for the brain to eat raw stinging nettles. Um, OK.
I'm going home tomorrow. I did something to my foot, and I won't be able to hike on it for days, probably, and something came up at home anyway. I will have to hit the Hot Springs to Erwin section in 2007.
Posted by nicole at January 15, 2006 19:46 PM