PCT day 1 - mile 0 to mile 11(Southern Terminus)

"Why would you even hike there? It's only rocks and dust" Kerry, the bus driver. So it has begun! And of course not much went as planned :) First of all Jasper stayed at the hostel as he was still not feeling well (stomach issues) so I ended up going to El Cajon on my own. Got picked up by the 894 driver an hour early as he was going through the bus station to the first bus stop and Wallmart, his name was Kerry and he didn't stop talking to me for the next two hours. He was an absolute character, he claimed that he spend 10 years in prison for a bank robbery, got out in 2007, been homeless for a year and then landed himself a job as a bus driver. He gets paid 22$ an hour, he also got into some kind of accident for which he got paid a large sum of money he used to buy a house in Lake Morena, he was also quite keen to show me naked pictures of his girlfriend, he stood by the right of owning a gun (which he can't have now as a convict) as a way of protecting yourself...