Made it to town, Helen GA

Here is a summary of the adventure:
5/12 Nancy  hand sewed while Craig drove. Stayed at Motel 6. Ate at Zaxby's. Nancy had a 55 pound pack; Craig 38 pounds.
5/13 Had an awesome breakfast and toured Ashville NC. Headed to Georgia in the rain. Stayed at Amicalola Falls State slept in the car. Nancy purged some stuff from her pack. 
5/14 More purging: Nancy 45; Craig 42. Mailed box of excess to Nancy K. Tried to call a shuttle in the pm to no avail. Hiked half the 8.5 mile approach trail and tented. Met new friends Aileen Trever and Alyss (Craig dubbed 3 amigos). Hard time with Sierra Zip Ztove. Ate cold oatmeal which wasn't that bad and became the staple.
5/15 Stopped at a couple shelters and stayed at Stover creek shelter. Saw amigos again. Discover that they were carrying 55 to 65 pounds. Kayenta (dog) shivered in shelter; she is a tent dog for a while.
5/16 Stayed at Hawk Mt Shelter and met 3 amigos and others. Took about an hour to start campfire with Alyss' help bellowing.
5/17  Stayed at Gooch Mt Shelter. Many hikers there. Craig saw Fireflies or something shining thru the tent all night.
5/18 Tented at Lance Creek. Guy named Tune played guitar. A squirrel chewed Nancy's bear bag and ate a quarter of her nuts. Nancy has had a different body part ache each day.  Soon all parts will be done and we can say by to pain.  Kayenta has been great.  She is stiff in the morning like all of us but walks faster than I can and still has energy at the end of the day to explore the campsite.
5/19 Saw a bear near the tent; Kayenta barked and it left. Climbed Blood Mt which had a beautiful view and an awesome shelter of mountain stone. Stopped at Neel Gap and at a pepperoni pizza, probably the worst pizza that tasted so good. Bonvoyage to our 3 amigos who stayed to ship stuff home. Hiked to find a campsite and ran into a huge storm. Found one around Levellend Mt. Craig could not throw a bear bag rope over a branch for almost an hour and got soaked.
5/20 Discovered that our New Orleans and Australian friends lost some food to a bear. Stayed at Whitley Gap Shelter which was 1.2 miles off the AT, whew!  Nancy hikes every day thinking about what she can send home from her pack.  So far she has about 3 pounds going home at the next town to Nancy K.  She attracts many great comments with her innovative rain roof.  People love it. Good news is that it functioned beautifully in the first gentle rainstorm we had.  Many notice our kilts and we are being called the kilt people.  Hiked 1.2 miles to the shelter, which was the longest to any shelter for us. Kayenta slept about 16 hours. Rhododendron and mountain Laural in bloom.
5/21 Many ticks at the site. Nancy removed over 30 ticks from Kayenta. Still having a good time tho.
5/22 Hiked to route 75 and hitched a ride to Helen GA from a father and son who were very nice. Staying at the Helendorf tonight; got our supply box from the post office. Ate dinner with Craig's high school classmate Bob Y, who lives in GA.