Ready or Not the Great Adventure Has Begun

The Great Adventure has begun - had a nice long flight to Atlanta on Wed., met my sister who had driven up from FL to meet me and help with the food lists.  Thursday we toured the Georgia Aquarium located in Atlanta's Olympic Park - had to get my PEOPLE fix - nice attractions. Then after seeing all those fish, I told Sara I needed a seafood dinner that evening. We drove a couple miles from our motel to a delicious seafood restaurant, Spondivits, and shared a pound of King Crab Legs, Snow Crab Legs, Lobster tails and shrimp! Then it was a long evening/early morning discussing food, calories, proteins and olive oil and a few nervous hours trying to pack the backpack. We left the motel at 10:00 - Sara was driving back to FL and I was riding on MARTA (light rail) to my Hiker Hostel pick up spot North of Atlanta. Very nice hostel, linen on the bunk bed, trip to Walmart in Dahlongea for supplies and Subway for supper. The Hostel will feed us breakfast in the a.m. and drive us to Amicalola State Park. The weather on Wed. was sunny, 70s, Thursday - overcast and warm, big thunderstorm Thursday night, and today was warm -70s, humid and overcast. They say spring is a month early - the dogwoods are already in blossom. It is supposed to be in the 50s for the next week. I will post pictures at my first resupply in Neels Gap, where the computer might be a bit faster!