Date: 2011-08-05
From: Velvet Rocks Shelter

To: Velvet Rocks Shelter
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: light rain

Well not the kind of zero I like but I still have another tomorrow. Visited the doctor and ate a good amount of food.So slept good last night and woke up around 7. Had some food and organized my food bag to see what I would need for the next section which was nothing. Didn't eat much the last few days. Didn't want to carry my back back down the hill so stashed it in the woods and hung my food for the day before heading out. Back at the road there happen to be a bus stop and waited for the bus to the hospital. Was told I couldn't been seen at the clinic and had to use the hospital. So went there and saw a doctor pretty quick and his first thoughts were Gall Bladder due to the symptoms. Not what I would say but I am not a doctor. Hikers get two illnesses Lymes and Giardia, after a sonogram and blood work he concluded it as Giardia. After five hours of mostly reading and napping I was given two prescriptions. If they had the first which was four pills taken at once he suggested it but if not the second choice was seven days three times a day. Left the hospital and jumped on the bus back to Hanover and was dropped of at the first pharmacy which didn't have the first prescription. So I went down the street to CVS and they did, filled that and went to lunch. Had a Boloco burrito which is similar to Chipotles and took my medicine. Can't say the medicine was the cause but I have felt much better today. After lunch I visited to outfitter to see if my guidebook had arrived and meet the postman leaving as I arrived and he said he just delivered it so I was in luck. On to the library was my next stop to read some more and charge my phone. Around five I left to get some food for tonight at the Coop and ran into Fiber and Veto doing the same. Got a foccacia loaf and some cheese and turkey for a sandwich for today and tomorrow. Carried all the stuff up the hill along with some water since the shelter doesn't have nearby water. It is harder by far carrying stuff in your hands then on your back even at way lower weights. Finally made it back to the shelter and ran into a problem. My bag I stashed in the woods had a hole chewed through my rain cover, backpack, compactor bag, dry bag and into my sleeping bag. Only a very small hole in my sleeping bag but the backpack will have to be sewed up and the dry bag completely tore apart when I took my sleeping bag out. Definite bad luck on that one. My backpack already needed some work with three other spots that needed some sewing so tomorrow I become a seamstress. Rawdog is here tonight as well and eventually I had dinner and we all sat around talking a bit. Last night a used Fibers guide and planned out the rest of my trip. I want to take a lot of time the rest of the way so made a very conservative plan to finish on the 15th, which is actually the same as Pappy which is the sixth month mark for the rest of the group. The following day is the start of the Trail's End festival near by. Chris called and I gave him the date so he will arrange to meet me up there that weekend and we will visit the area for the next two weeks while he is on vacation.Tomorrow I will probably visit town to charge my phone and get a new dry bag and then do nothing the rest of the day.