AT Day 68 Bartlett Brook to Bob and Kathy's-Sign Makers

Miles ~10
Total 715

We arrived in West Hartford with 2 plans. 
1. get a package at the post office
2. head out and hike 2 more miles.
Neither thing happened.

1. As we were walking to the post office, a guy in a truck pulled up to make sure we weren't lost as the trail goes in the opposite direction.  When we told him we were headed to the post office he smiled and said "Good! just wanted to make sure" then he drove off-only about 5 feet.  Then he leans out the window and says, "Wait! We have no post office.  It got washed out in the flood-you can see the steps are still there.  Check at the village store."   So we turned around and headed back the way we came to the Village Store.  They gave us the number to the post office in Harford-7 miles down the road.  We called them and had our package forwarded to Hanover.   Mission Accomplished.  Kind of.

2.  While at the store we ran into Old Goose and Dreamtime. They mentioned a house where we could sleep in the backyard-just 3 houses down.  I really wanted to say and Jamie really wanted to go on.  We played rock, paper scissors.  We stayed.

 So tonight we're camped out in Bob and Kathy's backyard.  We took a little dip in the wading pool they sculted out of the stream and we walked back to the village store and played our first game of horse shoes.  Tomorrow we'll hike the 10 miles into Hanover.