Date: 2013-07-25
From: The Yellow Deli, River Road

To: The Yellow Deli, US 4
Miles today: 5.6

DAY 46MILES ON AT FOR DAY- 5.6MILES TOTAL FOR DAY- 5.6I decided to wake up early to get my work for stay out of the way. As I may have mentioned before, "work for stay" is when you simply do some tasks for the hostel in order to stay for free. I chose to do mine early this morning since they needed help with food prep in the deli. I had to do an hour of work which ended up being an hour of just folding aprons and towels and cutting up vegetables. Pretty easy! Especially when you have the person making drinks in the caf© tossing a bunch at you to test them out. I got to have a coffee, a latte, and a matte. Real hard work for stay getting all these free drinks!After I finished my work for stay I got to join the others for breakfast. They make a nice hearty breakfast that you eat at a big roundtable which is nice so everyone can eat and chat together. It feels very homey. After breakfast I decided to do a nice pack shakedown (go through everything in my pack). Nightwalkers mom and sisters were going to be coming into town to visit and I wanted to find a way to make my pack lighter once and for all and send some stuff off at the post office which was a few miles from the hostel. Stinky Jesus and Nightwalker helped me. I managed to eliminate about 3lbs! Doesn't seem like a lot but every bit matters!I managed to finish just in time before Nightwalkers family arrived. It was nice to meet them especially since he had met so much of my family. They were very nice and gave a bunch of us a ride to the post office. I sent off my extra weight and picked up my fresh new dirty girl gaiters I had sent in to Rutland! After the post office we dropped the others off and I went to lunch with Nightwalker and his family who treated me which I am thankful for! When we got back from lunch we walked around town a bit and then decided it was time to hike. We were going to be slack packing a small small section we hadn't done the day before... basically just to make out zero a nero haha. When we went into the hostel to change I met some more SoBo's. Their names were Smiles and Dave the Pirate. They were ahead but were in town to grab a package. They started on June 1st. Nightwalkers mom gave us a ride back to where we had left off the day before and then we were off. It took all of maybe 2 hours tops but it felt good to get at least a few miles in. Miles are miles! We tried to hitch a ride but were unsuccessful. Luckily the town bus passed by and he picked us up and gave us a ride. The bus station happened to be right behind the hostel so it worked out perfect! When we got back we went to grab food at the pub around the corner with Smithy and Nectar. Got some good wings and local beer When we went back to the hostel, I found out that Stinky Jesus had gotten a dog. Earlier that day he had mentioned how much he wanted a furry companion on the trail and that he would go to the shelter in town. And he did. And he came back with a furry companion! She was a beautiful hound mix. Big ears, slender, and brindle colored. For now her name was "Dog". It would be fun to have an animal on the trail!After meeting "Dog" we all split to do our work for stay. The boys went and painted and Nectar and I did our work for stay for the coming night which was again just cutting up vegetables. Unfortunately this time I had to cut onions. I was pretty much crying the entire time. This work for stay was more like torture for stay but I'll take it. Two nights basically free at a great hostel! After that we went to Walmart to do some resupply on food and then we hit the hay. The next day we had a big slack packing day over Killington!