Date: 2018-06-18
From: Silver Hill campsite

To: Cornwall Bridge CT
Miles today: 0.8

I got up late at almost 7 and the campsite was empty except for myself and River and Heineken who was packed up and almost ready. He hiked out down to town via a short cut to the road. I left before 8:30 and River was in front of me today but waited for me at the road crossing. We walked along the shoulder on the side of Route 4 with cars whizzing by for almost a mile and stopped at the gas station/convenience store for a cold beverage and sat down on the curb to enjoy. A couple of people stopped to talk to us briefly. When we were done we walked a little further and stopped at the outfitters where I picked up a new bottle of bug spray. Then we crossed the street to the Cornwell Bridge Country Market and ordered breakfast. I had a sandwich with 2 eggs, ham, cheddar cheese and avocado. It was delicious! I drank 3 Snapple raspberry iced tea. Rainbow arrived and joined us on the porch. She was finishing some work on her laptop and was expecting a package at the post office after noon. The temps quickly soared today and more hikers appeared. Most were day and section hikers. We chatted with 2 women day hikers who were fun to talk to and had lots of questions about thru hiking. We had rented an apartment for the night at Amselhaus nearby. After we were done eating and socializing we decided we'd head over there and shower, throw our laundry in and come back over for lunch and resupply. Of course we'd have to stop at the package store also, sign the register and collect a free beer. We did all of that after meeting with Robin at Amselhaus to check in. What a very nice person and a very special house with wonderful history. This was truly a relaxing space that we could just sink into, unlike a hotel room. Being Monday we planned to watch the bacheloret tonight and drink our beer. We wandered back to the store freshly showered and hungry again to find Rainbow still on the porch. We extended an invitation to the 3rd bedroom in the apartment and we went inside in the AC to order lunch and eat. We met Full Throttle and No Name inside where they were trying to cool down. Full Throttle was over heated and sick, having trouble drinking. Not a good thing. He was hoping to go back out and hike 6 more miles to a shelter. After eating lunch I did some resupply shopping for dinner and 2 full days on trail. It's very expensive to resupply at these small stores. I dread it because it's almost double what I'd spend at a grocery store. Just before I wandered back to the apartment Rainbow caught me to take us up on the 3rd bedroom. Too hot and unsafe to hike long distance=full house. Back at the apartment it was cool downstairs and tolerable upstairs for a while but we did have to call Robin and ask for the air conditioners that hadn't been installed yet. She tried to bring them up but it was too much for her so we all went outside and grabbed one and brought them to our bedrooms where Robin held up the window sashes as we installed them. And the cooling began! Whew! A thunderstorm rolled thru and Rainbow watched it from the front porch. It did little to cool things off outside. Since we couldn't get any ABC channel to come in on the satellite dish River downloaded the ABC app and we ate our dinner, ice cream and drank our beer while watching last week's episode on her phone which was propped up on the coffee table. After that I retreated to my nice cool bedroom for slumber! It's been a great restful day.