May 5

As usual, I started the day with 50 floors of stairs.  Then another 12 floors piled on from going up and down to the room on the fourth floor (packing the car, eating breakfast...).   We walked to Subway and the Outdoor store before checking out of our hotel, then headed to Bryson City.  Almost the entire park was still closed from debris and fallen trees from yesterday's wind storm, so we had to drive around the park to get to Bryson city.   Once we got there, the rain let up enough to allow us to do a lovely easy 3.8 mile hike along Deep Creek and Indian Creek trails.  The fitbit says I did 22000 steps today.   I hope to a more challenging hike tomorrow.  The weather forecast looks promising.