Date: 2010-10-05
From: Kokadjo - B Pond Road

To: Jo-Mary Road
Miles today: 0.0

Jo-Mary Road,    Seeing I stayed in Millinocket last night and had to come back to Kokadjo - B Pond Road where I left off, I figured since I had a geocache on the logging road that was on the way in that I should do some geocache maintenance and make sure the cache was still in good shape. Everything was fine. I signed the log book and moved on.   After getting dropped off Hopper walk in with me about a mile to the sand beach on Crawford Pond. I took some pictures and we parted ways.   Shortly after the sand beach I caught up to the Barbarians. They were sitting on the side of the trail having a snack. We chatted and then they got up and we started out together. The Barbarians are a father and son team as I have already mentioned. The are small and have a shorter pace than me. I slowed down while we chatted and hiked together for a little while. We crossed what use to be an old dam. There was nothing left identifying it as a dam, it was just a jumbled up section of bolders. While chatting with Tecolote I found out they were also from Maine. They live in East Machias. The fathers trail name is Tecolote and the sons trail name is Venado with the letter V making the B sound, the name means deer in spanish.   Boston came up behind the three of us and passed The Barbarians and that gave me the opertunity to pick up the pace and get moving. I stayed in front of Boston until I reached Cooper Falls Lean-to. I went to the lean-to for lunch and Boston just went on by.   When I got to the shelter Lasher and Wondering Jew were sitting in there eating. I asked them where they were heading today and they said they were staying right where they were. They are also planning on going to White House Landing for the night tomorrow. The Barbarians came in after a while and we all sat around chatting and eating lunch. Lasher is only doing 600 miles, he plans on doing a thru hike next year on maybe the PCT. Wondering Jew is going to do another thru hike next year.   It is amazing how I now see all these little brown garden snakes in the woods but I never saw a rattle snack down south. I did not want to actually see a live one. I am just saying this because everyone else I know was seeing them but I never saw one.   I got to Jo-Mary Road around 3 pm. Hopper was cleaning out her car. I went picked up the five gallon bucket that we had Kathy put in the woods for our food drop and then started going through my food. I have more food than what I need to get me to the end of this hike. That is not a bad thing.   We set up camp in an area up and off the road. It is a place that has been used many times for camping. I went around after setting up camp and collected enough firewood so we could sit around the fire tonight. While we were sitting around and journaling Superman walked up the road and into our site. He sat around talking and patting Ben. We told him we were getting ready to start a fire shortly and there was plenty of room for him to set up camp too. He said he had three and a half more miles to do to the next campsite where he was going to meet Lazy ans Busy. He did ask Hopper for one of her cokes which she made him say please before she gave him one. After he drank the coke he got up and moved on.   We started the fire after superman left and roasted hot dogs over it. We had to by chicken hot dogs because Hopper can not eat beef or pork products. They taste pretty much the same to me anyways, food is food out here.   Tomorrow I will go to White House Camps and get a space in the bunk room. That includes an all you can eat breakfast. That will us up the last of my hiking funds. I will have made it all the way will all I put aside and from some help from dear friends.The Barbarians, Boston, Lasher, Wondering Jew, Superman.