Last night it was really cold, the temperature was 3 degrees but it felt like 0.

Believe it or not even though it was so cold we were able to sleep through the night. Mehrdad in general has higher resistance against cold temperatures. Me on the other hand, I am always freezing and need specialized equipment like the Columbia’s OMNI HEAT base layers and the Marmot sleeping bag, they are expensive but they do keep you warm.

We had breakfast, pancakes, sausage and coffee offered by the campgrounds for a low price, I got double saucesage because Mehrdad is vegetarian. I can feel the pounds going up.

We packed everything back up on the bike and took off to Boone through the Blue Ridge Parkway.

As usual the ride was beautiful.

We found some friends along the way.

Reached Boone had lunch at a cute sandwich place called “Our Daily Bread”

…and took off for Blowing Rock. Blowing rock is a cute little town famous for its cliff of 4000 feet above sea level and the force of the winds that it is said to return light objects from the void.

We walked around “Blowing Rock” park.

and then we walked around the town and had great ice cream.

We had issues finding a place where to stay for the night, everything was full but in the end we found a spot on Honey Bear Campground … in the overload site. When I say a spot, I mean a spot. At the reception they told us… We are completely full however you can go to “this and this” area and find a place where to put the tent.

(once I upload the scan ) if you look at the campground’s map the spot is not even detailed. The places with the hand drawn stars are referred as overload campgrounds. The red dot marks more of less where we stayed.  By now we are experts setting up camp. We set up everything had dinner (pasta primavera)

and headed for the laundry. We have nothing to wear, everything we brought is stinky.