Day 32 – April 13th. 1 month from start date..

After I posted my blog last night I was met by 2 people for 2 separate interviews. One was for the Pennsboro Newspaper and the other was for The Mort Report. A social media blog that is taking off in the local area. I thought I did pretty well in the interviews and I enjoyed their company. Then they left..

It was just me and Domino but I didn’t mind. It was getting dark and I was getting tired. I made a fire for the first time on my walk because the wood came with the campsite. I enjoyed that for a while with a book on my Kindle and then went to bed comfortably.

I woke up at 4 am and it was really cold out. My tent was wet from condensation so I adjusted everything to stay as dry as possible and rewrapped Domino up in her blankets. I got all the way under my sleeping bag and went back to sleep.

Woke up again at 7 am and the condensation was now frozen. Which was good because it wasn’t dripping onto my sleeping bag but was bad because it meant that it was literally freezing outside. I grabbed everything that I needed and headed for the bathroom for a hot shower to help warm me up. I took my time as I couldn’t break my tent down until it defrosted and I could dry it off. I went for breakfast at the lodge after I was dressed. The sun was all the way up now and I figured when I got back that I could break everything down and get going.

As soon as I walked in I was greeted by a nice lady who said that she saw me on the Mort Report. Funny. I still hadn’t seen it because there was no internet at the camp site. Breakfast was free for me and for Domino and we got the nutrients in us to get a good days work in.

I go back down (2 miles) to the campsite and pack everything up and start to walk out of the park (2 more miles) back to the trail. On my way out a group of girls were doing yoga or something similar and I heard, “Brett!” Wasn’t expecting that one!

It was a girl who had heard about me and had been following my blog for some time now. She had sent me an email a few before with the phone numbers to the local newspapers. It was because of that email that I was able to do the 2 interviews the night before. I was very grateful to have met her. There were 3 pretty ladies and a cute little girl and a 2 day old goat named Squirrel. We talked for a few and took a picture while Domino sniffed all of the goat’s toys.

Back on the trail! I had already walked at least 5 miles. Whatever. I had nowhere to be today. Just anywhere west of where I was yesterday.

I went into the town of Cairo. Pronounced [car-oh] like a car. There was a little bike shop with the American Discovery Trail logo on it. I had to go in. I bought some snacks and signed the guest list and rolled on. Cairo was interesting. The trail I was on followed a river all day. I’m not sure what it is called so I decided to name it The Nile River. Pronounced  [Nilly]. So all day I kept telling myself that I’d been to Caro to see the Nilly river. Stupid.

More trail and more tunnels.. one tunnel was haunted and had the ghost story written on the map that I had. I was looking for her but I got nothing.

Came across an old house and explored it a little bit. I kept thinking the whole thing was about to collapse on me at any given second. I made a quick sweep through and got outta there. One thing I noticed was that there was no bathroom. Must’ve had an outhouse somewhere. I didn’t care to see that.

More trail and more tunnels.. this time I took my shirt off. There was no one around and it was finally hot enough to enjoy the sun. I sang loudly and made weird noises as I walked on.

After a really long day, we finally get far enough to set up camp. I had no more in me. I’m not supposed to camp alongside this trail but I’m not hurting anyone tonight. It’s the off-season and I like to think that I have a good enough reason for them to let me stay here. We’ll see. I hope no one comes at all. I’ll just pack up in the morning as if I was never here and move on. I’m in plain sight from the road that is across the creek from me. I don’t even care. That’s how tired I am right now haha. Hope it doesn’t backfire on me….