Date: 2018-10-08
From: Daleville

To: Daleville
Miles today: 0.0

I slept well in the cool temp of our room getting up at 1am for the bathroom and going right back to sleep. At 6am I heard WE up getting ready. I joined her and Eddyman downstairs for breakfast just after 6:30. After they left at 7:30 I returned to the room and rested a while longer. At 9:40 I had a small bowl of cereal and then walked down to the shopping plaza where the outfitter and Kroger are. Pepper jack had given me his tube of seam sealer but it was clogged up and I couldn't get it to flow freely. The outfitter wasn't open when I arrived even though the hours stated 10am so I enjoyed a raisin bagel with cream cheese next door and read an article on spider webs. You might not think that would relate in any way to Hiking but it does. Every day we are the recipients of faces, arms and legs full of gooey spider webs. The face is where it feels the most disgusting and for that reason we like it when Eddyman goes first. He's the tallest! I'm sure he's not impressed by our urging and to be fair we do sometimes go first but he always gets what our height misses. A few times I've gotten the spider along with the web and it produces a dance move I'm not proud of, as I struggle to wipe the spider off me quickly. The most common one we see is a striped garden spider with colorful long striped legs and body. I don't in any way think they're beautiful. The article I read was regarding the stickiness of the webs and the study of the impact dew may have on it. We hikers voted that yes the dew and our sweat make it stickier. No need to conduct further studies! I texted a picture of the headline to WE, Eddyman and River giving them a chuckle. After my delicious bagel, which I've been dreaming about for days, the outfitter was open and I stopped in. He got me the seam sealer and I also purchased a blaze orange bandana. It's hunting season and we can hear the shots. While it's small game right now it will change soon and blaze orange will be required in some sections of the trail. I stopped at Kroger and got a small bottle of olive oil per River's request and some bone broth for me to sip as well as a Body Armor hydration drink and new gel insoles since I've had mine from Hanover NH and I'm feeling like they're dead now. I headed up towards the hotel for my last errand stopping at the Howard Johnson across the street to pick up our resupply boxes that were mailed there. With my arms full I played another game of frogger across the 4 lane and won a trip safely back to our room. I set up my rainfly in the grass out back of the motel and applied the seam sealer. Again the sun made me feel sick so I retreated to the air conditioned room for a while. Around 1:30 I walked to the Mexican restaurant out front and had a lunch burrito I couldn't finish but it was delicious. Back in our room I layed down and was watching TV when WE arrived before 3pm. Once she and Eddyman were showered we all went back to the Mexican restaurant and I had flan while they are dinner and WE finished my flan for me. River got in at 6pm from her hike and I went back to the Mexican restaurant with her around 7pm and had a grilled chicken salad. Eddyman joined us mid meal and we all finished up together after which River and I played night frogger across to the convenience store and I picked up Gatorade for WE so she could freeze it for tomorrow. It was almost 9 when WE and I turned the AC cooler and the TV off. I dosed myself with melatonin and said a goodnight to Brian and closed my eyes. 15 minutes later WE and I both were needing it cooler to sleep so I cranked that dial down and drifted off.