Rebecca “V-Dub” Harnish
One spring day in 2018,Tina Tempest, owner of the Quarter Way Inn hostel near Ceres, and Virginia,noticed one of her guests sitting at the table creating a small painting of rhododendrons.
“I was, oohing and aahing, and I asked her,‘Would you like to do an art-for-stay?’” recalls Tempest, who hiked the Appalachian Trail under the trail name “Chunky” in 2009.
“What is ‘art-for-stay’?” said the painter, or Rebecca “V-Dub” Harnish.[br]
“It would be a work-for-stay” (a practice where hostels allow hikers to work in lieu of paying for their accommodations) “where you develop a slight painting for us and leave it here,” Tempest explained. ...
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Source: appalachiantrials.com