Miles: 18.3
Total: 452
What a great day today was! We were woken up at 7am with the question "How many pancakes to do you want?" I was up in an instant asking how many could I have and what kind are they? I placed my order for four pancakes. One blueberry, one banana and two chocolate and banana. Jamie had Banana and Walnut (also four). When we got down stairs to the table the caretaker Bob and his son (also bob) were in the kitchen cooking and there was coffee on the table. COFFEE! Heavenly. The Bobs honored all pancake requests and offered to cook more if anyone was still hungry. Needless to say, breakfast was great. OH! did i mention they served us as well? Wow. just wow. Even the drizzle didn't dampen our spirits.
We finally left around 9:30 after way to many cups of coffee.
Worrying about rain, we booked it 9 miles to the first shelter and stopped for a snack. The sky, at this point, looked incredibly ominous but knowing that in another two miles we were going to stop at the cookie lady, we started up again. Promptly after leaving the shelter it started raining. Then it started raining harder, and then is started hailing and then the lightening was right above us. It stormed for about 45 minutes. The exact amount of time it took us to get to the cookie lady. As we were approaching her driveway, it cleared up.
Who's the cookie lady? A lady who gives cookies to thru-hikers. Her and her husband moved into their house 28 years ago. They are within sight of the trail. I think the trail runs along their property. Anyway, about 25 years ago they started baking cookies and giving them to thru hikers. They also sell some snacks. Jamie and I popped in and bought 4 hard boiled eggs, 1 coke and got some cookies. She wasn't home but we sat and chatted with her husband for about 45 minutes while we warmed up and snacked.
We were feeling fresh and fine when we left so we practically scampered to the Kay Wood.
Tonight we're here with Kyle, Drew and TicTac, two of whom we met at the fingerboard shelter and we did a farm stay with all three of them. There's also a section hiker, Dan, who just came from a Kirpalu retreat and is doing 10 days up into Vermont. Jamie and Dan are lighting a fire to keep the bugs away and all the smoke is going up into the loft where I'm currently sitting unable to breath. Heading down.
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