Appalachian Trail (day 1) - Amicalola Fall's to Long Creek Fall's / mile 5
My cunning plan to get to Gainsville at midday and catch a hitchhike to the trailhead fell to pieces once I've arrived at the Amtrak train station in the morning and the employee informed me that 11:30 train does not leave the station until the evening. And that's what it said on the ticket "11:30 PM", guess I misread it, it took me completely by surprise especially as I used Amtrak before, absolute disaster. Now taking into consideration that I would arrive at Gainsville at half past midnight, and would have to sleep on the train station until morning, things were looking way less attractive. I decided to ditch my old plan completely and order a Lyft, which costed a small fortune of 130$, but being delayed much further wasn't an option, especially as it was supposed to be raining two following days on the trail. Within 20 minutes, I got a ride with Pedro from Venezuela who couldn't speak any English as he only arrived in US two years ago and since my Spanish ...