Day 88

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Checked out of the hostel, grabbed breakfast from Coffee And and then hung out at the depot until our Reno shuttle arrived. Two other hikers were taking the same shuttle and we shared our information about the bus to Chester. The buzz among hikers is how to get around this fire and most of the rooms in Chester are booked up from hikers and firefighters. We decided to stay in Susanville to avoid taking a room from firefighters in Chester, especially since it will be easy to take the bus from Susanville all the way past Chester and directly to the trailhead. The Reno airport was kind of odd since we haven’t been in an airport in over a year, and the number of people wearing masks (properly!) was surprising. We waited a couple hours for our bus to Susanville, which dropped us off across the street from our hotel at the Wal-Mart. We intentionally got a room with two beds in case we needed to share it with other hikers, but ended up having the whole room to ourselves. After checking in and dropping our packs in the room, we walked back over to Wal-Mart to get some extra food and snacks for the room. Followed by walking over to the Taco Bell for late lunch. I love Taco Bell. The place was struggling though and we ended up with two extra bean burritos. Oh well, they would be eaten. We later had Happy Garden Chinese food, which was delicious. Another night in a bed, so nice.