Date: 2004-07-08
From: Moosie's Hostel, New Milford, Ct.

To: Mystic, CT - John Galt's House
Miles today: 0.0

John Galt's houseMystic, Ct.I was up until 2am this morning, but I still got up about 6:30am to have coffee and danish with Moosie before he left for work. He had to get going so he didn't miss the train into NYC. After he left, I went back down stairs and finished writing my journal entry. Goldilocks came down and we talked some while he was checking out my journal. Mrs. Moosie made a very good breakfast of scrmbled eggs with cheese, bacon and a nice fresh fruit salad and more coffee. The Moosies don't even drink coffee but they made sure I had coffee...now how do you think they knew I liked coffee??? Goldilocks, Mrs. Moosie and I enjoyed a leisurly breakfast with a nice view of all the flowers out their back door. Goldilocks had to get ready for work while I checked out the baby names that some people came up with on the Trail Journals Forum for Goosebump The Snow Princess' baby. I liked Blaze sent in by Eric and I liked Geogia Maine Erdman sent in by Wolf. When Mrs. Moosie took Goldilocks to work, I took a shower and got ready to go to the other side of Ct to see my '03 sobo friend, John Galt. When Mrs. Moosie got back she wanted to see my journal and she added a few hits to it for me. That's a friend!! We talked for about an hour before I needed to get going to John Galt's. We said our goodbyes and I gave her a hug. It's always hard to leave such good people, but they invited me back when I get to Ct on my hike. Hey Moosie, hope to see you in Maine when JG comes up. Thanks for having me over.It was an easy 2 hour ride to John Galt's place. John Galt lives on a 600 acre farm in a house was built in 1740. There are all kinds of antiques and old photos and old portraits in the house. John had to go tutor a student, so I took a much needed nap.John Galt came back to pick me up and we went over to his mom and dad's house. He still had Jessica with him. She was the little girl that he tutored. We tried to give her the trail name of Talksalot, but she didn't like that one. There were about 5 other children at his parents home playing in the swimming pool. When we got there his mom brought out fried chicken!! She had been waiting on us to get there and I didn't even know about it. That was the forth homemade dinner in a row that I've had...life is good. It was good to see some of the hiking pictures that John had from last year's hike sitting around their home. I got to meet Rosie, their Border Collie they just got on the 4th of July. I played ball with her a while. She was a beautiful dog. I checked my journal and saw that I've gone over 10,000 hits. I also saw that Liteshoe stuck another link to her journal (Transciber's reminder:http://www.trailjournals.com/liteshoe/)on yesterday's entry. I just can't get over how someone could be so vain. John and I went to C. C. O'Brien's Sports Pub after we picked up a friend of his by the name of Eric. Kate came in and joined us and then Andrew joined us. It was fun talking about some of the things that happen on the trail. I thought about how these friends of John would do hiking. Eric would be a hiker that would have a hard time leaving the local pubs and probably would end up yellow blazing from pub to pub. Kate would endure a thru hike, but her backpack would weigh about 50 lbs. Andrew would be a purist and would shave when he got a motel. John Galt would do another good hike as long as he was home in time to open his Christmas presents. We got back to John's house at midnight. It's been another great day.