Hello Folks,
   After much talk and deliberation, I have been cleared to start posting on my BLOG because of an incident that happened with one of my sponsors. I will not get into it, I will not comment on it at all, at any time in the future.

Let it be and move on.

As for a quick update on my progress on the trail, there is none; but I will start at the beginning of where it all happened.

I left Ft. Myers, FL after visiting friends, on the Greyhound bus heading to Atlanta, GA and somewhere in between I lost my wallet, for the first time in 40 years. Do you know how much stuff a wallet can hold?? Yes, that includes your ID, Debit Card, Charge Card, Certifications for work and more of those cards that we all hold for those god awful stores that we go to every day to get a nickel off.

First thing I do, is call the Bank and shut the account down. That's fine and Then they tell me that I don't have any money for the next two weeks, until I receive the new Debit Card. This is not good!!!
Then I asked them to mail the card direct and they can't do that, because it is not insured that I will get it where I am. I said, wait a minute, You can't mail me the card direct, but you can mail it to my house, that I'm not at, at all, because I'm a 1,000 miles away???? There is some thing wrong with this picture for sure.
  OK, mail it to my home and I will have somebody, who you don't know, pick it up and mail it to me at where I am, 1,000 miles away!!!!
  I am now without money and a backpack with four days of food in it, This is not working in my favor at all!!!!
  So, I make a call to a friend back home and ask him to mail me some money for two weeks until I get my new card?  He says yes. Now he has to mail the money by FED EX so I get it and start the hike, now 5 days later than I had planned. I said that's fine let's do it and let's get moving on it.
  I get the money on a Friday morning and that afternoon I was heading to Amicolola Falls State Park after having paid my bill at the hostel that I was staying at and with just over 100 dollars in my pocket, I head off to the woods. I have NO Debit Card, No ID, but I do have a magazine with my picture in it and my name printed next to the picture that I will use for ID, if anybody asks. This is a real fiasco in the making, I can see it now. Ranger asks to see an ID and I tell him I don't have one but I have this picture with my name on it. All I can hear is, GET IN THE CAR YOU ARE GOING TO JAIL. You are not passing go, and you will stay there until we get this straightened out.
  Thank God, This did not happen and I am now in Erwin, TN as I am writing this and I do have my NEW Debit Card and still no ID, because that I had to wait for the Debit Card to get here before I could order the ID card, because I had to pay 7 dollars for the new ID card, that could be mailed to anywhere in the world.  GO FIGURE.   
  I did the approach trail on the 21st of March and summited on the 22nd, then turned and headed north right away.

NOW, that all of you people are laughing and wetting your pants about this, I have more for you as time goes on. I will be writing in about a week and letting you know more funny stories that have happened to me on this journey so far.
  As for pictures, Small Town America does not have computers that are up to date at ALL!! The first computer I went to use was still running on Windows 95 and could barely run an email, much less a program that uses Google Chrome. So I may have to wait till I get home and post them then, but for now, I will keep you informed with the news from the trail.

TILL LATER,
   GRIZZ