May 6 – Return to the Trail

Post date: May 8, 2012 4:53:21 PM

An early morning rise, travel to the O’Connell Center and witness a graduation ceremony at the University of Florida with each speaker ending their speech with the same two words. . . "Go Gators!"

Celebratory lunch (a/k/a gorging) followed.

By 4:15pm and after two days of eating, thinking of eating and planning for eating, the hikers and their gear were loaded back into the car and left Gainesville, Florida, for the 600 miles journey back to the pickup point in Atkins, Virginia.

The hikers arrived at 1:30am on May 7 and quickly settled in for the night.

542.2 miles complete/1,642.2 miles to go