Date: 2007-10-22
From: Iron Master's Mansion

To: Iron Master's Mansion
Miles today: 0.0

mi. 0sleep hosteldest. Iron Master's manison day 102 Well I didn't end up going anywhere today. When I planned it last night, I was going to try to get a few miles in. But it worked out for the best. Today was probibly my funnest zero yet. All envolving things off the trai. I woke up early, of course, and headed down to see if there was any breakfest working. There was talk of pancakes last night. I got to the kicten to find Torque and gaiter down there. There was pancakes and the smoke to go along with them. The smoke alarm ended up going off. Needless to say I made the next batch for me. I showered and packed up. I left my pack along with Aaron's bags at the hostel. I ask my until next times to Torque and Gater. I'll catch up with Gator in the next day or so. Torque will probibly be a half day in front. Unless he waits out the rain. I know if I was going to make miles I should on a great day like today. Esspecially since it is going to rain tomorrow. But to paraphrase a great American movie. What kind of hiking trip is this, all I have been doing is walking. And hey it has been 20 trail miles since my last zero day, I am due. It looked pretty funny. Aaron driving his motorcycle and me riding. What completed it was he was wearing his riding boots, jeans, grey sweat shirt, leather vest, and helmet. Basically biker getup. And me in my green convertable pants, red rain jacket, and hair blowing in the wind. Ok it had to look flaming. It was halarious. We were getting tons of weird looks from people. I got a great pic of a tour bus loaded with people looking at us. Not to mention a great self pic of us going down the road. We only stopped at a couple places. Neither of us wanted the full tour, just a once over. The funny thing was twice we asked for directions from people working. Both times they tried to sell us a tape or cd audio tour. No radio on his bike. We joked around that if we were on 2 bike we should pay the $45 for a personal tour guide. That would be funny. After doing the tourist stuff we hit up th library. I can never understand some people tht work in places like that. They had a strickly inforced 1 hour limit. I can understand that if someone is waiting. I'll take my turn like everyone else. But there were 4 open PC's. Some people take their job way too seriously. But that is another rant. After that we hit up a bar for a drink. We were planning on staying and having some dinner, but the area is way too pricey. So we headed off. We ended up in another small town. Aaron had some things to finish up online. After that we hit up another drink. This was a really cool old pool hall. Coverted into a bar. We were really close to a local college. We also scored a free game of pool here. After that first dinner. We went to a strange old looking dinner next door. The atmosphere reminded me of something out of the late 70's. The 2 people working were definitly from some old Soviet block country. Not rude, just in a hurry to get their job done. After looking at the menu we both decided to order the Blockbuster sandwich. Neither of us knew what it was, but it sounded good. It turned out to be a cooked ham and chz sandwich. Not too bad. After that we decided to get some food to take back to the hostel and fix. We drove through the small town towards the store. I think there was a Halloween paraid that night. There were a lot of people in lawn chairs along the road. I got some great pics of them. I will have to say it was fun and really cold to ride home on the back of a motorcycle at night holding a frozen lazona. If I would have thought about it I would have piced up some soda. Funny side note. Originally Araon said he wanted to make it back before dark because his head lamp didn't work. It was just getting dark out when we got back. I took it as no one would see us from the front. Adding a layer of well interesting stetchyness. It turns out it is just pointed up. Still not great, but safer. After waiting 2 hours we finally had some lazona. Aaron had a great idea. With a few mintues left we put a bunch of sliced chz and grated chz left in the frig on top of it. Them we put the oven on boil. That did the trick. Toasted chz top. The rest of the evening was all about food and movies. Something interesting we were talking about. He said it was nice to talk with another travelor. We are basically doing similar trips. Mine is just hiking while his is on a bike. We both see new things and places. That has me thinking about an upcoming road trip in my future sometime.