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Yay warmth and dryness!

I stopped for the night just north of Manning, South Carolina. It was getting really cold (34 degrees currently) and I was holding up quite well - except for my hands! That hand dryer at the gas station helped out a lot but still didn't quite get 'em dry, and I could definitely feel it at below freezing with wind chill. I made it around 50 miles with it getting progressively colder and slowly curling my fingers up more and more until I decided that I didn't need to make a thing out of it - whatever there was to prove today, I already did it through the rain. Tomorrow will be cold enough!

So I'm holed up in a Super 8 chillin' and finishing off the day. I laughed when I took all my gear off, because everything I was wearing on my torso took up all the hangars in the closet! Under armor, north face fleece, thermal, sweat shirt, north face puffy jacket, north face soft shell ski jacket... haha. On the bottom I've got my boxers, thermals, sweat pants, and my north face ski pants. It's a lot of clothes! Tomorrow I think I'm going to add a couple more layers just to be safe as I head north.

Now, time to watch the first few episodes of season 7 of 24! Woo!

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