Week Five, 2022
Saturday March 26 Continued I just wanted to add that when Skip returned us to Hot Springs, he not only bought our breakfast, he bought our resupply as well. This man had known us for less than 24 hours and we were treated like family. Once again my faith in the goodness of regular people has been bolstered. I asked Skip to let me pay for my own resupply and he said, "we only pass through this world once. I like to make people feel happy." A pretty simple concept that is often hard to practice. Here was another lesson of which I was reminded in a simple but very effective manner. On a completely unrelated but interesting note, Hot Springs was used as a German interment camp during World War One. The sight is now the fairgrounds in the middle of town. Sunday March 27 This Lord's day dawned cold and clear at Spring Mountain Shelter. Eli and I need to be in Erwin on Wednesday. To get there on time we have some pretty high mileage days just ahead. We started out just after e...