Day 6: a zero day

Good times catching up with Frindy here in her beautiful home in Haymarket, VA. I was glad to introduce her to Matt (of Matt & U-dog), the AT comic strip artist. I've come to really admire Frindy's section-hiking the AT. It's harder, I think, than a thru-hike in that you have to acclimate every time, and it requires more patience and want to. I'd like to help her finish it... maybe the Smokies this summer, or the Whites next summer?

I went down to the stable with Frindy to do evening chores. It was a lull between rains so the sky was gray but alive (you know what I mean?). Frindy was clapping and calling her horses in, and there they came trotting across the pasture, beautiful creatures, and the sky started flickering with lightning. This all happened silently, and in my memory, in slow motion. After the movement biking on roads, the lack of noise, I really felt peaceful there. Thanks for having us, Frindy.