For those of you who have completed a thru hike, when/where did you:
Receive your first mail drop, or resupply for the first time?
Take your first zero day?
Send home your first load of unneccessary items?
Send home your winter clothes?
First receive trail magic?
Stop feeling disgusted at pulling on dirty clothes in the morning?
Spend your first night in an empty shelter?
First get homesick and want to quit?
Realize that nothing but unexpected illness or injury could keep you from finishing?
Get sick of oatmeal and Lipton packets?
First hike through a rainstorm?
Feel free to elaborate, and add any other firsts that you might want to share.