Miles: 15
Total: 1394
Today was a town day! Unfortunately we knew this this morning so we had a harder time than usual getting up because we knew out would be an easier day than we've been having lately. We were still out of the shelter by 6:30 though.
We only has about for miles to hike to the road, but when we got there, there was very little traffic going in the direction we needed to go in. Luckily about 30 minutes of thumbing a lady coming out of the farm across the street pulled over to pick us up since she was heading that anyway.
Buena Vista is 10 miles from the trail so it took a good 15 or 20 minutes to get in. Or first stop was a Hardees (Jamie's first time in one) and enjoyed some fine southern fast food (we recommend the country fried streak biscuit). After consuming vast amounts of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates, we made or easy to the post office to pick up our food drop. To our surprise there was a card and a gift for Shannon's birthday from Molly Coon that Jamie's dad forwarded along. Thanks Molly!
The post office also was a place of postings and farewells, though. Shannon sent her ukulele back (to Jonable to borrow, actually). We haven't been having as much free time and playing is harder with cold fingers!
We spent some time in the library and then had lunch at the Blue Dogart cafe. Super nice staff and pretty good food. We picked up some additional supplies (most important being batteries -we are now very reliant on or headlamps) and were getting some water at Hardees when Jamie started chatting with a guy Don on his lunch break. He had some questions about our trip and it turned out he is pretty active with scouting - a really nice man and fun to chat with. Well went and offered to take us all the way back to the trail and he wasn't even heading in that direction. Thanks again to Don!
Well by the tome we got back to the trail it was about 2pm, a little later than we'd hoped since we still had 11 miles to hike. Unfortunately there were a few climbs involved so we made it to camp about 6:30. Luckily we have lots of treats now, though, so we are going to bed with full bellies!
Oh, Shannon speared an acorn with her pole today. That is kind of amazing.
Total: 1394
Today was a town day! Unfortunately we knew this this morning so we had a harder time than usual getting up because we knew out would be an easier day than we've been having lately. We were still out of the shelter by 6:30 though.
We only has about for miles to hike to the road, but when we got there, there was very little traffic going in the direction we needed to go in. Luckily about 30 minutes of thumbing a lady coming out of the farm across the street pulled over to pick us up since she was heading that anyway.
Buena Vista is 10 miles from the trail so it took a good 15 or 20 minutes to get in. Or first stop was a Hardees (Jamie's first time in one) and enjoyed some fine southern fast food (we recommend the country fried streak biscuit). After consuming vast amounts of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates, we made or easy to the post office to pick up our food drop. To our surprise there was a card and a gift for Shannon's birthday from Molly Coon that Jamie's dad forwarded along. Thanks Molly!
The post office also was a place of postings and farewells, though. Shannon sent her ukulele back (to Jonable to borrow, actually). We haven't been having as much free time and playing is harder with cold fingers!
We spent some time in the library and then had lunch at the Blue Dogart cafe. Super nice staff and pretty good food. We picked up some additional supplies (most important being batteries -we are now very reliant on or headlamps) and were getting some water at Hardees when Jamie started chatting with a guy Don on his lunch break. He had some questions about our trip and it turned out he is pretty active with scouting - a really nice man and fun to chat with. Well went and offered to take us all the way back to the trail and he wasn't even heading in that direction. Thanks again to Don!
Well by the tome we got back to the trail it was about 2pm, a little later than we'd hoped since we still had 11 miles to hike. Unfortunately there were a few climbs involved so we made it to camp about 6:30. Luckily we have lots of treats now, though, so we are going to bed with full bellies!
Oh, Shannon speared an acorn with her pole today. That is kind of amazing.
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| We love Hardees Breakfast |
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| A snake |
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| Birthday gift from Molly Coon! |
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| I got one! |
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| Punchbowl Shelter |
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