Date: 2004-07-10
From: John Galt's house

To: John Galt's home Yet Again
Miles today: 0.0

John Galt's homeN. Stonington, Ct.That's right, I'm still at John's house. I decided to slow down because I'm going to miss seeing Frodcaller in Maine by a day or so. I really wanted to get up there and see her before she left for a week of trail maintenance on the Maine trail crew, but I guess I'll have to see her when John and I get done with the 100 mile wilderness. I'm hoping that I can still get over and see her husband, Lew before I start walking. It is taking me a long time to go from Florida to Maine. I think I've done pretty good getting this far in almost 2 weeks of being on the road...remember, it's the journey that counts, not the destination. I finally got a full 8 hours of sleep last night, but I had to sleep until 9am because it was 1am before I went to bed. It is very rare for me to sleep much later that 5am or so. I was busy talking to Dr Dolittle and trying to explain {get out of trouble} a little joke I played on her. She only wanted to believe the bad, untrue stuff I told her and not the good, true things that really was the joke itself....long story. I went over and knocked on John's bedroom door and told him I was going to take a shower and get ready to go up to Rosie's Restaurant for breakfast. He said he would get ready to. When I got done, I came back out and sat down in the living room and tried learning more about my new digital camera. Time went by fast and when I looked up at the clock it was 10:30 am. I listened, but didn't hear any noise coming out of John's room. I went over and looked in and he was still in bed, sound asleep. Looks like he's back to the way he was when I first ran into him on the trail. He never got started hiking very early until he started walking with A.T.Addict. Then the rest of the trail, he started early. I wonder what he'll say in Maine when the sun rises about 4:30 in the morning this time of year and I always get up with the sun.I just went up to the restaurant by myself and spent about an hour sitting and eating breakfast and reading the local newspaper. When I got back, he was up and busy checking his 22 mouse traps he sets every day. He scored with 3 more mice last night, so he has 50 mice caught to 7 mice that sprung the traps and got away. I feel that he should be doing better since he has a college degree. We went over to a Walmart in Rhode Island and I bought a memory card for my camera. John drove me down by the beach and showed me the areas he used to hang out when he was growing up. When we got back to his house, I cleaned out my truck and repacked my backpack. Everything was scattered around, so it took a while to get it all back in order. I'm planning on leaving here early in the morning, so I can get through Providence, RI and Boston, Ma in light traffic. I'll be in Maine tomorrow!!! We went to a party that a bunch of his reporter friends were having. It was a very nice day with warm temps, low humidity and all the food and drinks I wanted. I was good though and only had 2 cokes, a little salad, a hamburger and a hotdog. Most of the people were drinking mixed drinks out of coconuts with straws that had pink flamingos on them. We stayed there until about 8pm and then came back to John's house. I'm ready to see Maine again. I sure hope this nice weather with low humidity holds on for the summer.