Day 41

16 Miles

The tree served us well and we had a calm night. Gazelle passed by our tent as we were packing up. We later passed him on our way to the water source. He caught up while we were filtering. Two dudes on dirt bikes rolled in as well. They initially seemed alright, but eventually the louder of the two started making bad jokes. When he said, “Know why it’s good our bikes are black? Cuz black bikes matter! Haha!” I was done at that point so I joined Marie who had already walked away. We had planned to take a break at the spring so despite those idiots hanging out nearby, we still had a nice time off our feet. We walked a couple more hours then stopped for lunch. Shade was easy to find since we are getting more and more patches of real trees. We hung out for about 3 hours before starting back up. It was still blistering hot, but clouds on the horizon looked like rain. We got our hopes up for some rain, but none came. Still got to enjoy the shade though. We arrived at camp and I am now thinking I didn’t get enough water for tomorrow. I was thinking we had 6 in the morning, but we have 9 before our next spring. Cooler morning temps should make it okay. We’ll see.