I’m up early for no reason so I just lay quietly and catch up on the internet until Jake wakes up. Once he does wake up I make coffee in the keurig and bring it back to bed along with a Milano cookie that was provided in the coffee station. It’s glorious. Coffee & cookies in bed is a great way to wake up.
Eventually we made our way over to Cheryl’s Diner for breakfast. There were a lot of other hikers there, some we recognized and a lot of new ones. After breakfast we walked to the outfitters for some things and ran into Ana outside. She was headed out of town but it was nice to quickly catch up. The outfitter was stocked with anything we needed and some stuff that was a luxury purchase…like the sale tshirt I bought so I wouldn’t have to wear my hot jacket all day.
Back to the room to gather our laundry and head over to the grocery for a small resupply. Luckily this town is super small so we never have to go very far for anything. We walked across the street to start our laundry and then next door to the grocery. You can tell they don’t get a ton of hikers because the selection was fine but not great. We only needed a couple days of food this time so we were done shopping in a short amount of time. Jake ran over to switch our clothes to a dryer while I checked out and then met him at the laundromat.
After all our chores were done we decided to walk over to the brewery for lunch. The food was very good and so was the beer. We didn’t get as many weird looks as we did last night when we went in there all dirty and stinky. Soon we headed back to the room where Jake convinced me to get in the pool with him. We ran into pricepoint and Honeybear on our way in and made plans to go to dinner together. We swam around for a little bit while I finished my can of wine and then headed upstairs to shower and try to look presentable for dinner.
Dinner was okay, I don’t think anyone was very impressed with the food but oh well. It was fun to hang out and chat with pricepoint & Honeybear. We all walked back to the motel together and went our separate ways for the night. It sounds like they are going to try to take the early bus out to Walker Pass but it’s supposed to be another scorcher so we won’t be doing that.
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