The further shuttle appalachian

The further shuttle appalachian we shuttle appalachian trail hikers in north georgia and north carolina

Goooood morning friends and fam.. mary and I are sending lots of love and positive vibe y'alls way. We hope everyone had...
09/14/2026

Goooood morning friends and fam.. mary and I are sending lots of love and positive vibe y'alls way. We hope everyone had an awesome night of rest. I do know some may be just getting home or some are getting ready to lay down from a long night and to you guy and gals.. goooood night. peace.. one love.. so today we have a slower day and j'dan will be heading to unicoi gap to meet a hiker that will be going to dicks creek and starting their hike southbound to amica. We will be taking care of the hiker for the next 4 days. The hiker is trying to finish georgia. As far as i know from what the rider told me the hiker starter at the bryson /wesser noc mile 137ish and has been hiking south by using his motorcycle and car. He was staging his bike at the end of the hike and parking his car at the other end and he would hike to his vehicle and ride back and repeat the cycle. Last night i received a call from the rider wanting prices on multiple rides and if we had availailibility and so we talked and came up with a game plan and set him up for the next four days here in georgia. He was a very cool cat.. so jordan will scoop the rider at 7 ish am and after we are clear for shuttles with j'dan. Mary is going to be meeting a group at unicoi gap and shuttling them to amicalola state park. After she will make her way back to basecamp ballard and from there we will wait for phone calls to roll in. We did schedule a few riders yesterday. But for the most part we had a lazy sunday and made gelato and ate lots of fruits and soaked up some youtube murder mysteries!! Hahahaha.. biscuit will hold down the fort and make sure his food does not go stale.. especially his cracktations. K. Sending lots of positive vibes out for all to soak up. Man, spread love and positive vibes cause negative vibes suck.. thank you everyone for the love and support y'all show us. We could not be anymore blessed than we are now. We are lucky to have a job and home and food in our fridge aand so many awesome people in our lives. I could not imagine anything much better than what i do today.. helping people is the best feeling and it keeps me smiling and it keeps other smiling too and that is all i want is to see people have a good time. K. One love. Peace and safe travels .. thank you

Good morning to all our friends, fam and followers.. man, mary and I are hoping everyone had an awesome night of sleep c...
09/10/2026

Good morning to all our friends, fam and followers.. man, mary and I are hoping everyone had an awesome night of sleep cause you deserve it and if you are just getting ready to lay down and get your rest.. well, goodnight, my friends.. much love to you all.. be safe. K. So today mary and I and don't forget the boss, biscuit.. hahaha. And so we are getting ready for our day. Mary is heading to the northend of the smokys national park to meet a group and shuttle them back to fontana dam to begin their hike through the smokys. The ride is 140 plus miles one way to davenport from basecamp ballard is approximately 3 hours with construction along the route especially on i40. The ride back to fontana is 102 miles and 2 hours and 1/2 with load time and construction. Fontana back to the basecamp ballard is 80 miles and about 2 hours. So 320 miles to complete the ride and about 7 and 1/2 hours of straight drive time. We would use an entire tank of gas which about 50 dollars depending on where we pump the gas. 12 dollars in taxes. 30 bucks for commercial insurance. 20 bucks for misc. Wear and tear on vehicle. 8 dollars for webpages, etc. Phones 5 dollars. So 117 needs to come out of this ride no matter what to pay for the day. This is what it takes to keep the business running. 63 dollars is what we take away from this trip.. the only way to make money is to stay ontop of things and have enough advertising to get enough phone calls to build routes that have you picking up the hiker at davenport and drop them at fontana and have a ride at fontana or somewhere near there that is coming back towards georgia and so you are not dead heading all the way back. You dead the three hours to davenport pick up the rider and bring them to fontana and pick someone up there you are filling the last two hours in with a ride instead of dead heading from fontana to ga.and you can stack ontop and hopefully the rider is going to like deep gap or windinf stair and that is less than two hours and so we charge around a 100 dollars and so we would pick up at fontana and continue to winding stair gap and this on the way back to georgia too and so we stack the 100 ontop (take away money for gas for mileage to winding stair from fontana) and the gas and wear and tear are paid for so we stack the hundred ontop of the 63 dollars we made from the davenport to fontana and hopefully we have another rider at winding or deep gap or some where in that area coming back to georgia... and repeat the cycle. That is how you make money out here. One shuttle does not do anything, but pay for the day and so it is what you can hustle up for rides for the rest of the day that will put money in your pocket to pay house bills and living expenses cause we all gotta live. K. I hope this helps people understand how shuttles survive out here.. we like to educate those who do not know so they get an understanding on what is going on out here. K. So jordan will be at the mtn crossings store assisting hikers and tourists and i will be here manning the phones with boss biscuit. Haha. I hope everyone has an awesome day. Be well. Be kind. Spread positive vibes.. negative vibes are lame, boring and exuasting.. one love.. peace

Gooooood morning all our beautiful friends, fam, and followers.. at basecamp ballard we are hoping everyone had an aweso...
09/09/2026

Gooooood morning all our beautiful friends, fam, and followers.. at basecamp ballard we are hoping everyone had an awesome night of rest and if you are just getting ready for bed.. well, goodnight, my friends.. one love. K. So yesterday we had a great day. We scheduled a few rides and made gelato base and so we made a few different type of toppings to make like a power shakes with a plain gelato base. So we brewed up caramel, fried apples and cinnamon with some sugar, we got some dutch powdered chocolate with 70 percent dark chocolate, and we are adding other goods as we go and so we will be doing some protein powders, etc. and with the gelato plain base we can use our sides to mix in to our base to create something similar to dq blizzards. The extras would be put in when making the shake so it is not all frozen and hard and i think tasteless.. so this is an idea we experimenting with and we will see where it takes us. So we got some caramel gelato made.. so we had two shuttles yesterday. We had a neel gap to the airport which j'dan took care of. J'dan was helping spread mulch at mtn crossings yesterday and so the riders were going to be hiking down into neel gap around 3 pm and we were meeting them at neel and shuttling them back to atlanta airport. So j'dan worked spreading mulch until the hikers rolled down into the gap. Mary had a blairsville seasons inn to mtn crossings and after she hit the grocery store and came home and we cooked a churned and answered calls and helped hikers.. biscuit of course held down the furniture and made sure his food does not go stale. He is cute.. hehehe.. alright.. today is a slow day and so we will be here making food and taking calls. If anyone needs anything at all. Give us a jingle. Thanks everyone.. be kind. Be beautiful.. spread positive vibes.. negative vibes are lame, boring and exausting.. one love. Peace

Gooood morning all our beautiful friends, fam and followers.. i hope everyone had an awesome night of sleep and if you a...
09/08/2026

Gooood morning all our beautiful friends, fam and followers.. i hope everyone had an awesome night of sleep and if you are a person who works all night or stays up all night and you are now laying down.. "goodnight" .. today is going to be an awesome day. We have a couple of shuttles to take care of today. The first one will be mary meeting a hiker at seasons inn hotel intown blairsville and shuttling the hiker to neel gap. we met the hiker at neel gap and shuttled them to springer a few days back and so they were trying to hike back to their car and were not going to make it and needed an emergency extraction from cooper gap and so they thought they could make it to cooper, but got to the base of sassafras and decided that horse gap was better spot for them to bail so we sent the driver to horse to scoop the riders up and shuttle them to their car at byron reece. We had multiple calls roll in and the last shuttle of the evening was a 6:30 pm neel to amica that we passed to j'dan and we called it a day. Today mary will do her blairsville to neel gap and jordan will be going to atlanta airport and scooping a rider coming back mtns. I will man the phones and make sure everyone is happy and keep the work flowing.. biscuit will chill back and soak up the cush life!! Hahaha. K. I hope everyone has a beautiful day.. stay positive and block the negative vibes in life.. negative vibes are lame, boring and exausting. Spread good positive vibes.. one love. Peace and safe travels.. thank you..

Goood morning all our beautiful friends, fam and followers.. it is a beautiful morning here at the base camp ballard.. t...
09/07/2026

Goood morning all our beautiful friends, fam and followers.. it is a beautiful morning here at the base camp ballard.. today will be a slower day with shuttles, but i'm sure we will receive some on demand calls for hikers needing an emergency extraction. Yesterday started with multiple cancellations so we literally had three cancellations and so we planned on cleaning and making gelato and cooking up some food and instead we started to clean and i made caramel for the gelaro base we had prepped which i burnt the first batch of caramel and so i cleaned the mess up and sat back and gave myself a breather and tried again and i was successful on the second try for the caramel.. but while i did that we scheduled multiple rides for the future and took in four other rides that had us working neel gap to springer. Our last ride called in around 5 pm and this was a horse gap to amicalola and the riders were actually scheduled for today, but they were ready to end their hike early so we went ahead and scooped them up and got them back to their car. We sent j'dan on that run while mary and i worked on a scheduling for two hikers flying into atlanta airport where we will meet them and shuttle them to neel gap where they will begin their hike north to deep gap north carolina and several days later we will meet them at neel gap and shuttle them back to atlanta airport. The hikers had contacted us a few days back and wanted some prices and told us they were planning their trip and they needed some time to get it all down on paper so they could plan the pick up and drop off times and so yesterday they were ready to order up and we got them all locked into our schedule and they have verified the schedule is correct and have been informed on how our policy works and agreed to how we operate and so we are ready to scoop them at the end of the month. Today we will be doing a couple shuttles, cleaning, scheduling and just working like we do so if y'all need anything at all.. do not hesitate to reach out. Thanks for the support. We do appreciate you all. One love. Peace

Gooood morning all our friends, fam and followers.. be beautiful and kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Negativ...
09/02/2026

Gooood morning all our friends, fam and followers.. be beautiful and kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Negative vibes are lame, boring and exausting.. the trail is a magical place for those who open their eyes and ears and allow the trail to share its stories. There are many stories out here. A person has to leave the chaos of cookie cutter society behind and let the magic of the trail work it magic. It cannot be forced.. it cannot be bought.. it has to be earned and each person is different so it may happen one way for one person and another way for another person. Everyone is on their own separate journey, but we are all walking together. We help each other up with a hand up.. not break each other down and hurt each other. This trail is for everyone to enjoy.. there should be no leaders or categories or anyone telling someone how their hike should happen... be a positive vibe for yourself and everyone else.. i have some calls coming thru so i must go, but i hope everyone has a beautiful day. I hears we are going to see a 90 degree day today so lets see what happens.. hopefully not. Hahaha. We were just getting some cooler weather!! Haha.. k. One love. Peace and safe travels. . Thanks

Goooood morning all our friends, fam and followers.. much love to you all. We appreciate everyone for the support for th...
08/31/2026

Goooood morning all our friends, fam and followers.. much love to you all. We appreciate everyone for the support for the team. Thank you.. gooood morning to all of you and if y'all are just rolling in from a long night or work or you are just a night owl.. well, good night and rest well. Sleep is soooo important. So mary and I had a very slow and easy day. We had two shuttles a gooch to byron reece and mary did that one and jordan did a byron to amicalola. We did have some important errands that needed to be taken care of taken care of and we did have several schedulings aaand more multiple day slack packers wanting to schedule rides and asking questions about the hike. I really love helping out with people hikes. It really makes me happy hearing people happy and excited. Keeps me smiling. Hehe. K. So mary and I made some magic happen yesterday. Jordan met his neel gap riders and shuttled them to amicalola and after went to run some errands at the grocery store. I scheduled multiple rides for future shuttles and worked on some slack packing requests. We have had alot of large groups calling to schedule rides. We are one of the only services out here that can handle the larger groups. We can 8 riders plus. During thru hike we can usually do 12 to 16 head, groups. The rest of the year we can handle 8 and if there are more we call in another driver/business that we have worked with in the past. So today will be a slower day for shuttles and it is that time of month again where bills must be paid so mary will get out and pay the house rent and commercial insurance for the car and shop aaaand water for the shop. Gooood times.. haha. We have caramel gelato in the freezer that we churned last night and today we are going to make blackberry gelato. I have never had blackberry gelato and so i'm super stoked about churning a batch. Alright everyone we appreciate you sll for supporting the team. We appreciate you all.. much love. If y'all need us, do not hesitate to reach out. Thanks.. one love. Peace

Say good morning to "deathzone.." mary had set a goal for 90 miles this month and she met it at 96.93 miles. When you s...
08/30/2026

Say good morning to "deathzone.." mary had set a goal for 90 miles this month and she met it at 96.93 miles. When you spend your days sitting in a car all day it is easy to gain weight and get out of shape. You get all stiff and it hurts. It will make a person ache. So exercise is important. Mary drives about 100k in miles per year. We are always working. Jordan does a little less because he drives for about 7 to 8 months out of the year. I schedule pretty much 90 percent of those rides. Mary has more than a million miles in shuttles out here. Buuuut in between those shuttles both jordan and mary walk. When we used to run really hard and we literally were sleeping at gaps and gas stations, etc. to keep the hikers moving and we had multiple drivers and multiple cars let me say that it became a complete s*t show. Haha.. i was 127 pounds and mary was gaining weight from being in the car all day and i was losing weight because i was scheduling rides and making sure the whole world was ok besides myself!! Haha. But i was very unhealthy not eating and actually i was so unhealthy i was losing hair ontop of my head. I did not even know about the hair loss until mary looked at the top or my head one day and saw a huge bald spot starting from the center of my head and it was about the size of a silver dollar.. lets just say it scared me. So today we all make sure we get to sleep at home in a bed and everyone is home at a normal time and geting a healthy home cooked meal and not roadside gas station food or processed foods. We work hard, but we guard our health and make sure we are healthy physically and mentally. It is important to be healthy for ourselves and that of course trickles down to our customers and life itself. K. Hahahaha. I will stop the babbling.. mary is doing awesome and soooo positive . guys y'all stay cool, Man.. .. thanks for the support. Much love to everyone for being awesome friends.. one love. Peace

She cut it short today at a little over 6000 steps. She usually does about 9k plus..

08/30/2026

Goooood beautiful sunday morning all our friends, fam and followers.. god bless you all on this fine sunday morning. God is good. God is beautiful.. be kind to others. So today is going to be a slower day. We have a couple or shuttles to take care of and we have multiple schedulings to take care of. We have been really busy booking for the fall season. The calls are coming in one after another for people looking for the magical experience the trail has to offer. Yesterday we scheduled 5 or 6 rides. I had been texting with a group who wanted to come and hike from amicalola to unicoi gap from september 4th to september 7th and were looking for a 4 day drop off and pick up price or park car at end if hike and shuttle to the beginning and so we gave them a price for both ways. They ended up taking the park the car and hike back to the vehicle so one ride per day instead two rides. It is good having j'dan back cause j'dan helps take some of the workload off our shoulders so mary and I can take care of other parts of the business that need mary and my attention. So jordan will be heading to byron this morning to meet ridere that we are shuttlling to amicalola and after he will make his way back to ga. Of course i will be here taking calls and making sure everyone is happy. Mary will be taking care of a group going from hogppen to gooch gap and dropping them to begin their hike back their car. The rider is a repeat customer and is super fun to work with.. we are definitely blessed to have awesome customers. After she drops the hikers she will make her way back to the house and we will prep dinner and gelato base. I already have caramel made. I made some caramel yesterday for gelato and caramel apples and caramel on my greek yogurt, etc. Haha.. yummmmy!! It is so good. Im addicted to salted caramel gelato!! Hahaha.. now.. biscuit will be doing hisbthing and making sure the cushions are fluffed and his food does not ever reach stale stage.. hehehe.. man, be beautifully kind to yourself and others. Spread solid positive vibes. Negative vibes are exactly what they are.. negative vibes and they are exausting, boring and lame.. i want to be remembered as the guy who gave a hand up to those in need of some help. K. Thank you for supporting the team. We appreciate you.. one one. Peace and safe travels

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