Appalachian Trail (day 24) - Virginia Creeper Junction to Old Orchard Shelter / mile 510
Sunny day, good miles, ponies! First on the menu was a big ascent to Buzzard Rock, on top of it I've met "hiking mum's", four friends taking few days off from home duties to hike the Appalachian Trail. Ladies were all from Nashville, Tennessee. I talked mostly with Lauren, trail name "Wren", she was a mother of three, working in healthcare and recently divorced. As a democrat she wasn't happy about the current state of politics and she had a lot complains about it. She said that Tennessee in general was a "red state" (voting for republicans) but Nashville was considered a "blue dot" (democrat) on the map. Mums were section hiking the AT, every year they would add a hundred miles or so, they said it should take them another 12 years to complete the trail. Soon enough AT was passing through one of the newer additions to the trail: Grayson Highlands State Park. In the 1960s when Forest Service started to buy a land here to create Nationa...