First State Line!!! For reasons largely unknown to myself, I had a deep conviction that my hike wouldn't really start until I was out of Georgia. Put another way, I felt embarrassed a couple days before when I met some folks on the Trail who were just out for the day and they were all impressed and saying things like "wow, that's really cool that you're doing the whole Trail!", and I was sheepishly thinking to myself, "maybe so, but I'm only like 20 miles in, so I haven't earned too much credit yet." So perhaps it was that I had a desire for some tangible results.

That need was met by a wooden sign nailed to a tree.