Deliverance !

March 2, 2002- Saturday- Day 127

2:30pm- I was suppose to work this morning and I went down to call Danny at 5:30am and then again at 6:30am. No answer, so, I guess we aren't going today. Suits me just fine. While I was at the phone I kept hearing a dog bark, and I kept thinking he was in a truck parked across the street. I thought to myself that sure sounds like Skillet barking. But I couldn't imagine anyone putting him in their truck without a all brawl. When I decided it was to cold for Danny to get out of bed, I heade back to the tent. What a scare I got when I saw it was Skil's standing on the side of US64, oh my God! If I had got in the truck with Danny , Skil's probably would have followed us until he got lost and a good chance I would never have found him. He followed me a half-a-mile to this phone without me knowing it. That won't happen again! It has rained solid all day and looks like it ain't going to let up any time soon. I am camped now across a little creek and I placed some stones in the water to help me cross. A lot of good that did the water is raging through here and it is deep now. I am about to confess that N.C. has the most miserable weather on earth. There is no real dirt, it is a red clay that when wet, makes an awful mess. A person cannot walk on it, its kind of like red-snot, slipping and sliding, feet seem to just fly out from under you. Everything gets mud-red, really nasty stuff, but the locals say, yeah! but you can grow anything in it. Another gripe! Doesn't anyone make a tent that doesn't leak? I have to figure out how I'm going to cross this raging river, man, it is scary, I do not want to fall in there. I'll go out by myself and see if I can get across, then I'll look for something to help me get back and forth. This is something only seen on TV. What the hell am I doing here? Instead of going north, I should have got me a sailboat and went back down in the Islands, Warm there. I feel like someone may come out of these woods and tell me there gonna make me squeal like a pig. Oh, Jesus!