Thursday, April 21st

It was our last day. We woke up around 8:30 and took our time to get ready, but we were still quick and were out hiking by 9:15. We didn't make breakfast since we ate all of our food yesterday. We had to get to Bly Gap by noon because that is when our dads will be close to picking us up. We remember asking Sir Packs A Lot if there was a service road we could get picked up at at Bly Gap. He told us you pass the gnarled tree and there is a blue blaze trail on the left which takes you about 2 miles down the mountain and puts you in a neighborhood where you can get picked up. Both of our phones were 100% dead so we had no way of communicating with our dads. Also, the last thing our dads said was that they were picking us up at Charles Creek Road around noon. Charles Creek Road is about 7 miles from Bly Gap so we knew we would have to find someone with a phone and call our dads. We saw some people close to Bly Gap and asked if they could take a picture of me and James at the state line. We then asked if we could call our dads since we wanted to get picked up at the service road. The lady, who took the picture and gave us her phone, told us that she was 90% sure that we got bad information and that there is no trail that leads to a service road where we would get picked up. We decided we were going to trust Sir Packs A Lot and take the trail so we told our dads to call Top of Georgia for directions. Me and James took the trail and after what seems like forever we connected into a neighborhood. Sir Packs A Lot said 2 miles but it seemed more like 3 or 4 miles. Once we got to the neighborhood we were going to knock on someone's house and ask to use their phone to call our dads. Fortunately, right when we got to a house we saw my dad's car coming in our direction. We caught some good luck right there. Were now riding in the car with our dads, telling them all about our trip and talking about how great the Bobby's meal were about to get is going to be.